Reciprocity in ambiguous situations: Default psychological strategies underlying ambiguity resolution in moral decision-making.

ABSTRACT: When deciding whether to reciprocate trust, people are typically strongly influenced by how much trust their interaction partner has originally shown them. If a partner has placed a lot of trust in you, there is a strong motivation to reciprocate, and indeed this factor often outweighs pro-self considerations to maximize one's own financial payout. However, one important unanswered question in this regard is what people decide to do when this prior information is ambiguous; that is, when they do not know for sure exactly how trusting their partner has been. How then do people decide to reciprocate? This study utilizes a novel version of the Trust Game to directly address this question. Here, we develop, and validate, a computational model-based approach to quantify and categorize how parti

SUBMITTER: Galvan E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10994327 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature