Experience and advice consequences shape information sharing strategies.

ABSTRACT: Individuals often rely on the advice of more experienced peers to minimise uncertainty and increase success likelihood. In most domains where knowledge is acquired through experience, advisers are themselves continuously learning. Here we examine the way advising behaviour changes throughout the learning process, and the way individual traits and costs and benefits of giving advice shape this behaviour. We ran a series of experiments implementing a decision task within a reinforcement learning framework, where participants could decide to share their choices as advice to others. Participants were overall likely to share their choices as advice, even on the first trial before learning. Tendency to share advice and advice quality increased as advisers learned about the value of choices, and

SUBMITTER: Anllo H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11659411 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature