Human and macaque pairs employ different coordination strategies in a transparent decision game.

ABSTRACT: Many real-world decisions in social contexts are made while observing a partner's actions. To study dynamic interactions during such decisions, we developed a setup where two agents seated face-to-face to engage in game-theoretical tasks on a shared transparent touchscreen display ('transparent games'). We compared human and macaque pairs in a transparent version of the coordination game 'Bach-or-Stravinsky', which entails a conflict about which of two individually-preferred opposing options to choose to achieve coordination. Most human pairs developed coordinated behavior and adopted dynamic turn-taking to equalize the payoffs. All macaque pairs converged on simpler, static coordination. Remarkably, two animals learned to coordinate dynamically after training with a human confederate. Thi

SUBMITTER: Moeller S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9937648 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature