Alina Gutoreva | University of Warwick (original) (raw)
After undertaking a year-long internship in a Behavioural Neuroscience lab and completing my honours degree in Neuroscience, I pursued a PhD fellowship at the Behavioural Science Group, the University of Warwick, UK. My research concerns how social influence affects personal decision-making: the information received from others (i.e. description of an outcome, advice) affects our decisions and actions in many situations. Also, merely observing actions of others can indicate useful information for personal upcoming decision-making.
I attended Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Cognition and Behaviour Summer School (Dobbiaco, Italy, 2016) and Principles and Practice of Data Analysis for Reproducible Research Vocational School (University of Warwick, 2016), where I learned computational modeling techniques. I am also interested in Big Data for using in my research: The potential of Big Data for understanding individual and group behaviour is widely recognised now, and I aim to include Big Data analysis in my project.
My work includes several methods to study social influences on decision making: Lab experiments with human subjects, theoretical work developing and testing computational models based on reinforcement learning, and Big Data analysis.
Supervisors: Elliot Ludvig and Sebastiano Massaro
Address: Coventry, United Kingdom
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Procedia Computer Science, Dec 31, 2023
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.
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.
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.
This study aims to investigate how risk-taking behaviour changes when people coordinate.
Procedia Computer Science, Dec 31, 2023
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.
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.
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.
This study aims to investigate how risk-taking behaviour changes when people coordinate.