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Value-Based Neural Representations Predict Social Decision Preferences
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2022.
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Abstract
- Social decision-making is omnipresent in everyday life, carrying the potential for both positive and negative consequences for the decision-maker and those closest to them. While evidence suggests that decision-makers use value-based heuristics to guide choice behavior, very little is known about how decision-makers’ representations of other agents influence social choice behavior. We used multivariate pattern expression analyses on fMRI data to understand how value-based processes shape neural representations of those affected by one’s social decisions and whether value-based encoding is associated with social decision preferences. We found that stronger value-based encoding of a given close other (e.g. parent) relative to a second close other (e.g. friend) was associated with a greater propensity to favor the former during subsequent social decision-making. These results are the first to our knowledge to explicitly show that value-based processes affect decision behavior via representations of close others.
- Subjects :
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience
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- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....dc8e67090b78dddfc44a2aedc8cf8e40