Comparing experience- and description-based economic preferences across 11 countries.

Journal: Nature human behaviour

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Affiliated Institutions:  Human Reinforcement Learning Team, Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, Paris, France. hernan.anllo@cri-paris.org. Human Reinforcement Learning Team, Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, Paris, France. Intercultural Cognitive Network, Paris, France. Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago de Chile, Chile. International Laboratory for Social Neurobiology, Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, HSE University, Moscow, Russia. Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. School of Collective Intelligence, Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique, Rabat, Morocco. Laboratorio de Neurociencia, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina. School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China. Human Reinforcement Learning Team, Laboratory of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, Paris, France. stefano.palminteri@ens.fr.

Abstract summary 

Recent evidence indicates that reward value encoding in humans is highly context dependent, leading to suboptimal decisions in some cases, but whether this computational constraint on valuation is a shared feature of human cognition remains unknown. Here we studied the behaviour of n = 561 individuals from 11 countries of markedly different socioeconomic and cultural makeup. Our findings show that context sensitivity was present in all 11 countries. Suboptimal decisions generated by context manipulation were not explained by risk aversion, as estimated through a separate description-based choice task (that is, lotteries) consisting of matched decision offers. Conversely, risk aversion significantly differed across countries. Overall, our findings suggest that context-dependent reward value encoding is a feature of human cognition that remains consistently present across different countries, as opposed to description-based decision-making, which is more permeable to cultural factors.

Authors & Co-authors:  Anlló Hernán H Bavard Sophie S Benmarrakchi FatimaEzzahra F Bonagura Darla D Cerrotti Fabien F Cicue Mirona M Gueguen Maelle M Guzmán Eugenio José EJ Kadieva Dzerassa D Kobayashi Maiko M Lukumon Gafari G Sartorio Marco M Yang Jiong J Zinchenko Oksana O Bahrami Bahador B Silva Concha Jaime J Hertz Uri U Konova Anna B AB Li Jian J O'Madagain Cathal C Navajas Joaquin J Reyes Gabriel G Sarabi-Jamab Atiye A Shestakova Anna A Sukumaran Bhasi B Watanabe Katsumi K Palminteri Stefano S

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Citations :  Ruggeri, K. et al. Replicating patterns of prospect theory for decision under risk. Nat. Hum. Behav. 4, 622–633 (2020).
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Doi : 10.1038/s41562-024-01894-9
SSN : 2397-3374
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