Cognitive Load Does Not Affect the Behavioral and Cognitive Foundations of Social Cooperation.

ABSTRACT: The present study serves to test whether the cognitive mechanisms underlying social cooperation are affected by cognitive load. Participants interacted with trustworthy-looking and untrustworthy-looking partners in a sequential Prisoner's Dilemma Game. Facial trustworthiness was manipulated to stimulate expectations about the future behavior of the partners which were either violated or confirmed by the partners' cheating or cooperation during the game. In a source memory test, participants were required to recognize the partners and to classify them as cheaters or cooperators. A multinomial model was used to disentangle item memory, source memory and guessing processes. We found an expectancy-congruent bias toward guessing that trustworthy-looking partners were more likely to be associate

SUBMITTER: Mieth L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5006039 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature