Better together? Social distance affects joint probability discounting.

ABSTRACT: Deciding together is common in our everyday life. However, the process of this joint decision-making plays out across different levels, for example language, intonation, or non-verbal behaviour. Here we focused on non-verbal interaction dynamics between two participants in probability discounting. We applied a gamified decision-making task in which participants performed a series of choices between a small but safe and a large but risky reward. In two experiments, we found that joint decision-making resulted in lower discounting and higher efficiency. In order to understand the underlying mechanisms in greater detail, we studied through which process this variation occurred and whether this process would be modulated by the social distance between both participants. Our findings suggested

SUBMITTER: Schwenke D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9508051 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature