A behavioral signature for quantifying the social value of interpersonal relationships with specific others.

ABSTRACT: The idea that individuals ascribe value to social phenomena, broadly construed, is well-established. Despite the ubiquity of this concept, defining social value in the context of interpersonal relationships remains elusive. This is notable because while prominent theories of human social behavior acknowledge the role of value-based processes, they mostly emphasize the value of individual actions an agent may choose to take in a given environment. Comparatively little is known about how humans value their interpersonal relationships. To address this, we devised a method for engineering a behavioral signature of social value in several independent samples (total N = 1111). Incorporating the concept of opportunity cost from economics and data-driven quantitative methods, we derived this signa

SUBMITTER: Guassi Moreira JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11379851 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature