Continuous dynamics of cooperation and competition in social decision-making.

ABSTRACT: Real-life social interactions often unfold continuously and involve dynamic cooperation and competition, yet most studies rely on discrete games that do not capture the adaptive and graded nature of continuous sensorimotor decisions. To address this gap, we developed the Cooperation-Competition Foraging game-an ecologically grounded paradigm in which pairs of participants (dyads) navigate a continuous shared space under face-to-face visibility, deciding in real-time to collect rewarded targets either individually or jointly. Dyads (n = 58, 116 participants) spontaneously converged on distinct stable strategies along the cooperation-competition spectrum, forming three groups: cooperative, intermediate, and competitive. Despite the behavioral complexity, our computational model, which incorp

SUBMITTER: Lewen D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12644803 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature