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Poster Session B: Wednesday, August 13, 1:00 – 4:00 pm, de Brug & E‑Hall

Other’s Pain Drives Optimal Decisions

Judit Campdepadrós Barrios¹, Kristoffer Aberg, Rony Paz, Christian Keysers, Valeria Gazzola; ¹Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience

Presenter: Judit Campdepadrós Barrios

Decision-making under uncertainty may be different for monetary self-gains than when someone else’s pain is at stake. We use a three-armed bandit task in self-gain and other-pain conditions, and observe that participants show better performance when trying to avoid pain for another individual. Differences in behaviour stem from overstaying decisions in the condition of self-gain. Computational modeling reveals higher consideration of value in pain decisions than in gain ones.

Topic Area: Reward, Value & Social Decision Making

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