People's risky decisions are susceptible to the social context in which they take place. Across three experiments using different paradigms, we investigated the influence of three social factors upon participants' decisions: the recipient of the decision-making outcome (self, other, or joint), the nature of the relationship with the other agent (friend, stranger, or teammate), and the type of information that participants received about others' preferences: none at all, general information about how previous participants had decided, or information about a specific partner's preference. We found that participants' decisions about risk did not differ according to whether the outcome at stake was their own, another agent's, or a joint outcome, nor according to the type of information available. Participants did, however, adjust their preferences for risky options in light of social information.

Decision-makers use social information to update their preferences but choose for others as they do for themselves / J. Michael, A. Gutoreva, M.H. Lee, P.N. Tan, E.M. Bruce, M. Szekely, T. Ankush, H. Sakaguchi, L. Walasek, E.A. Ludvig. - In: JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL DECISION MAKING. - ISSN 0894-3257. - 33:3(2020), pp. 270-286. [10.1002/bdm.2163]

Decision-makers use social information to update their preferences but choose for others as they do for themselves

J. Michael;
2020

Abstract

People's risky decisions are susceptible to the social context in which they take place. Across three experiments using different paradigms, we investigated the influence of three social factors upon participants' decisions: the recipient of the decision-making outcome (self, other, or joint), the nature of the relationship with the other agent (friend, stranger, or teammate), and the type of information that participants received about others' preferences: none at all, general information about how previous participants had decided, or information about a specific partner's preference. We found that participants' decisions about risk did not differ according to whether the outcome at stake was their own, another agent's, or a joint outcome, nor according to the type of information available. Participants did, however, adjust their preferences for risky options in light of social information.
coordination; decision making for others; risk taking; social distance; social information
Settore M-PSI/01 - Psicologia Generale
2020
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