Beliefs about others’ intentions determine whether cooperation is the faster choice

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  • dc.contributor.author Castro Santa, Juanaca
  • dc.contributor.author Exadaktylos, Filipposca
  • dc.contributor.author Soto-Faraco, Salvador, 1970-ca
  • dc.date.accessioned 2018-07-10T08:22:55Z
  • dc.date.available 2018-07-10T08:22:55Z
  • dc.date.issued 2018
  • dc.description.abstract Is collaboration the fast choice for humans? Past studies proposed that cooperation is a behavioural default, based on Response Times (RT) findings. Here we contend that the individual’s reckoning of the immediate social environment shapes her predisposition to cooperate and, hence, response latencies. In a social dilemma game, we manipulate the beliefs about the partner’s intentions to cooperate and show that they act as a switch that determines cooperation and defection RTs; when the partner’s intention to cooperate is perceived as high, cooperation choices are speeded up, while defection is slowed down. Importantly, this social context effect holds across varying expected payoffs, indicating that it modulates behaviour regardless of choices’ similarity in monetary terms. Moreover, this pattern is moderated by individual variability in social preferences: Among conditional cooperators, high cooperation beliefs speed up cooperation responses and slow down defection. Among free-riders, defection is always faster and more likely than cooperation, while high cooperation beliefs slow down all decisions. These results shed new light on the conflict of choices account of response latencies, as well as on the intuitive cooperation hypothesis, and can help to correctly interpret and reconcile previous, apparently contradictory results, by considering the role of context in social dilemmas.en
  • dc.description.sponsorship SS-F was supported by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (PSI2016-75558-P AEI/FEDER) and AGAUR Generalitat de Catalunya (2017 SGR 1545). FE acknowledges the European Commission Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship (H2020-MSCA-IF-2014, Grant number: 657741).
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  • dc.identifier.citation Castro Santa J, Exadaktylos F, Soto-Faraco S. Beliefs about others’ intentions determine whether cooperation is the faster choice. Sci Rep. 2018;8:7509. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-25926-3
  • dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-25926-3
  • dc.identifier.issn 2045-2322
  • dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/35118
  • dc.language.iso eng
  • dc.publisher Nature Publishing Groupca
  • dc.relation.ispartof Scientific Reports. 2018;8:7509.
  • dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/657741
  • dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/PSI2016-75558-P
  • dc.rights © Nature Publishing Group. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-25926-3. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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  • dc.subject.other Conducta (Ètica)
  • dc.title Beliefs about others’ intentions determine whether cooperation is the faster choiceca
  • dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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