Norm compliance affects perceptual decisions through modulation of a starting point bias.

ABSTRACT: Adaptive decisions in social contexts depend on both perceptual information and social expectations or norms. These are potentially in conflict when certain choices are beneficial for an individual, but societal rules mandate a different course of action. To resolve such a conflict, the reliability of information has to be balanced against potentially deleterious effects of non-compliance such as ostracism. In this study, we systematically investigated how interactions between perceptual and social influences affect decision-relevant cognitive processes. In a direction-of-motion discrimination task, participants received perceptual information alongside information on other players' choices. In addition, we created conflict scenarios where players' choices affected other participants' mone

SUBMITTER: Toelch U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5882671 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature