Neural mechanisms mediating degrees of strategic uncertainty.

ABSTRACT: In social interactions, strategic uncertainty arises when the outcome of one's choice depends on the choices of others. An important question is whether strategic uncertainty can be resolved by assessing subjective probabilities to the counterparts' behavior, as if playing against nature, and thus transforming the strategic interaction into a risky (individual) situation. By means of functional magnetic resonance imaging with human participants we tested the hypothesis that choices under strategic uncertainty are supported by the neural circuits mediating choices under individual risk and deliberation in social settings (i.e. strategic thinking). Participants were confronted with risky lotteries and two types of coordination games requiring different degrees of strategic thinking of the ki

SUBMITTER: Nagel R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5755247 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature