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Action planning and execution cues influence economic partner choice
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Title / Series / Name
Cognition
Publication Volume
241
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Keywords
Cooperation
Joint action
Decision-making
Partner choice
Action understanding
Joint action
Decision-making
Partner choice
Action understanding
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/14142
Abstract
Prudently choosing who to interact with and who to avoid is an important ability to ensure that we benefit from a cooperative interaction. While the role of others' preferences, attributes, and values in partner choice have been established (Rossetti, Hilbe, & Hauser, 2022), much less is known about whether the manner in which a potential partner plans and implements a decision provides helpful cues for partner choice. We used a partner choice paradigm in which participants chose who to interact with in the Prisoners' Dilemma. Before choosing a cooperation partner, participants were presented with information about the potential partners' decision-related actions in another round of the Prisoners' Dilemma. They received either information about the potential partners' planning during decision making (i.e., decision-time; Experiment 1) or action execution during decision implementation (i.e., movement directness; Experiment 2). Across both games, participants preferred to interact with those who planned actions quickly or executed actions with direct and smooth movements, indicating that they were cooperating confidently and without deliberation. This demonstrates that action cues present in either the planning or implementation of economic decisions influence partner choice. We discuss implications of this finding for human decision-making and perception-action coupling in action understanding.
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Type
Journal article
Date
2023-12
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ISBN
Identifiers
10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105632