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People often learn about risks from other people. In the current study, we investigated the impac... more People often learn about risks from other people. In the current study, we investigated the impact of social learning on risky decisions from experience by incorporating direct observational learning. Participants were placed in pairsone participant observed the other participant sampling from different options, and then both made decisions based on this personal/observed experience. Participants tended to underweight rare outcomes less when learning from observed experience, particularly with high-value rare outcomes. This difference was not reliably significant, however, suggesting a subtle effect. The study discusses potential contributing factors such as active hypothesis testing, psychological distance, social environment, competitiveness, and goal alignment to explain the results. Overall, the findings contribute to understanding the dynamics of social learning in risky decision-making.

Sharing Identity with AI Systems: A Comprehensive Review

Procedia Computer Science, Dec 31, 2023

The cost of overweighting extreme outcomes

Exp 2: Social vs. Personal Experience

The role of information source in risky choice

This study aims to examine if people make risky choices differently depending on whether the info... more This study aims to examine if people make risky choices differently depending on whether the information comes without a clearly identifiable source or with a clearly stated social source ('others'). This study will provide an insight into how people make risky choices and the factors that influence those choices. Long-term, we hope that these results will help improve our understanding of how people use information to make choices, perhaps leading to some new techniques to improve decision-making that needs to consider personal and social experience.

Social Information and Experience in Social Risky Decision-Making

This project investigates how social information and experience influences decision-making for se... more This project investigates how social information and experience influences decision-making for self and others.

Passive experience and observation

People’s risky decisions can be highly influenced by the social context in which they take place.... more People’s risky decisions can be highly influenced by the social context in which they take place. Across three experiments we investigated the influence of three social factors upon participants’ decisions: the recipient of the decision-making outcome (self, other, or joint), the nature of the relationship with the other agent (friend, stranger, or teammate), and the type of information that participants received about others’ preferences: none at all, information about how previous participants had decided, or information about a partner’s preference. We found that participants’ decisions about risk did not differ according to whether the outcome at stake was their own, another agent’s, or a joint outcome, nor according to the type of information available. Participants were, however, willing to adjust their preferences for risky options in light of social information.

Joint Risk

This study aims to investigate how risk-taking behaviour changes when people coordinate.

Decision Making for Others 2018

People often learn about risks from other people. In the current study, we investigated the impac... more People often learn about risks from other people. In the current study, we investigated the impact of social learning on risky decisions from experience by incorporating direct observational learning. Participants were placed in pairsone participant observed the other participant sampling from different options, and then both made decisions based on this personal/observed experience. Participants tended to underweight rare outcomes less when learning from observed experience, particularly with high-value rare outcomes. This difference was not reliably significant, however, suggesting a subtle effect. The study discusses potential contributing factors such as active hypothesis testing, psychological distance, social environment, competitiveness, and goal alignment to explain the results. Overall, the findings contribute to understanding the dynamics of social learning in risky decision-making.

Sharing Identity with AI Systems: A Comprehensive Review

Procedia Computer Science, Dec 31, 2023

The cost of overweighting extreme outcomes

Exp 2: Social vs. Personal Experience

The role of information source in risky choice

This study aims to examine if people make risky choices differently depending on whether the info... more This study aims to examine if people make risky choices differently depending on whether the information comes without a clearly identifiable source or with a clearly stated social source ('others'). This study will provide an insight into how people make risky choices and the factors that influence those choices. Long-term, we hope that these results will help improve our understanding of how people use information to make choices, perhaps leading to some new techniques to improve decision-making that needs to consider personal and social experience.

Social Information and Experience in Social Risky Decision-Making

This project investigates how social information and experience influences decision-making for se... more This project investigates how social information and experience influences decision-making for self and others.

Passive experience and observation

People’s risky decisions can be highly influenced by the social context in which they take place.... more People’s risky decisions can be highly influenced by the social context in which they take place. Across three experiments we investigated the influence of three social factors upon participants’ decisions: the recipient of the decision-making outcome (self, other, or joint), the nature of the relationship with the other agent (friend, stranger, or teammate), and the type of information that participants received about others’ preferences: none at all, information about how previous participants had decided, or information about a partner’s preference. We found that participants’ decisions about risk did not differ according to whether the outcome at stake was their own, another agent’s, or a joint outcome, nor according to the type of information available. Participants were, however, willing to adjust their preferences for risky options in light of social information.

Joint Risk

This study aims to investigate how risk-taking behaviour changes when people coordinate.

Decision Making for Others 2018