{"pk":30141,"title":"Crazy for you! Understanding Utility in Joint Actions","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Predicting others’ actions and inferring preferences from their\nchoices is indispensable for successfully navigating social\nenvironments. Yet, the cognitive tools agents employ for prediction\nand decision may differ when involved in social interactions. When\npursuing a goal individually, humans maximize utility by\nminimizing costs, while when engaged in joint actions utility\nmaximization might not be the only heuristic in place. We\ninvestigate if human adults represent costs and rewards of joint vs.\nindividual actions, and how do they decide whether to engage in a\njoint action. We test participants’ decisions when solving a task\nalone or together with a partner as a function of the cost of\ncoordination. Our results show that human adults decide based on a\npreference for joint actions, despite engaging in coordination\nreduces their individual utility. We discuss a framework for\ndecision-making which accounts for cognitive heuristics and\npreferences for joint actions characterizing agents’ cooperative\nbehavior.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"utility; joint action; decision; coordination."}],"section":"Papers accepted as Posters, appearing in proceedings only","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3176x0ck","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Arianna","middle_name":"","last_name":"Curioni","name_suffix":"","institution":"Central European University","department":""},{"first_name":"Pavel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Voinov","name_suffix":"","institution":"Central European University","department":""},{"first_name":"Matthias","middle_name":"","last_name":"Allritz","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of St Andrews","department":""},{"first_name":"Josep","middle_name":"","last_name":"Call","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of St Andrews","department":""},{"first_name":"Gunther","middle_name":"Klaus","last_name":"Knoblich","name_suffix":"","institution":"Central European University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30141/galley/19995/download/"}]}