How Our Perception and Confidence Are Altered Using Decision Cues.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how individuals utilize social information while making perceptual decisions and how it affects their decision confidence is crucial in a society. To date, very little has been known about perceptual decision-making in humans and the associated neural mediators under social influence. The present study provides empirical evidence of how individuals are manipulated by others' decisions while performing a face/car identification task. Subjects were significantly influenced by what they perceived as the decisions of other subjects, while the cues, in reality, were manipulated independently from the stimulus. Subjects, in general, tend to increase their decision confidence when their individual decision and the cues coincide, while their confidence decreases when cues conflict wi

SUBMITTER: Saha Roy T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6971401 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature