Strategic complexity and cognitive skills affect brain response in interactive decision-making.

ABSTRACT: Deciding the best action in social settings requires decision-makers to consider their and others' preferences, since the outcome depends on the actions of both. Numerous empirical investigations have demonstrated variability of behavior across individuals in strategic situations. While prosocial, moral, and emotional factors have been intensively investigated to explain this diversity, neuro-cognitive determinants of strategic decision-making and their relation with intelligence remain mostly unknown. This study presents a new model of the process of strategic decision-making in repeated interactions, first providing a precise measure of the environment's complexity, and then analyzing how this complexity affects subjects' performance and neural response. The results confirm the theoretic

SUBMITTER: Reverberi C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9508177 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature