{"pk":49339,"title":"The trade-off between rule-based thinking and mutual benefit in tacit coordination","subtitle":null,"abstract":"One way to solve a repeated coordination problem is to generalize from past solutions: acting based on precedent or relying on existing rules. An alternative way is to reason about what would be optimally mutually beneficial in the moment. We investigate the trade-off between backward-looking behavior based on precedent and forward-looking reasoning about mutual benefit in a novel real-time incentivized coordination game (n = 252; 22,680 choices; preregistered). Then, we develop a cognitive model based on virtual bargaining and Bayesian inverse joint-planning which combines two components: one based on precedent, and one based on mutual benefit. Our model captures participants' behavior in the task, performs better than alternatives, and reproduces key differences between conditions in simulations.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Psychology; Decision making; Social cognition; Bayesian modeling; Computational Modeling"}],"section":"Abstracts with Oral Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4rg5b61f","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Arthur","middle_name":"","last_name":"Le Pargneux","name_suffix":"","institution":"Harvard University","department":""},{"first_name":"Sydney","middle_name":"","last_name":"Levine","name_suffix":"","institution":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Joshua","middle_name":"B.","last_name":"Tenenbaum","name_suffix":"","institution":"MIT","department":""},{"first_name":"Fiery","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cushman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Harvard University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49339/galley/37300/download/"}]}