Cognition versus emotion in strategy selection during ultimatum games and nested social dilemmas. The moderating role of individual differences
01/05/2005 - 30/04/2009
Abstract
Deviations from economically "rational" decisions in anonymous, one-shot strategic interactions remain difficult to explain from a purely economic point of view. We propose an experimental study to investigate how strategy selection depends on the environmental context and individual differences. We hypothesize that (1) strategy selection depends on the extent to which the context of the interaction will activate the socio-emotional versus cognitive information processing networks in the brain, and (2) individual differences will influence strategy selection to the extent that they correlate with the activation of socio-emotional processing.
Funding(s)
BOF
Researcher(s)
Principal investigator: Declerck Carolyn
Co-principal investigator: Boone Christophe
Research team(s)
ACED/Management