Cooperation across multiple game theoretical paradigms is increased by fear more than anger in selfish individuals

Abstract Cooperative decisions are well predicted by stable individual differences in social values but it remains unclear how they may be modulated by emotions such as fear and anger. Moving beyond specific decision paradigms, we used a suite of economic games and investigated how experimental indu...

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Autores principales:	G. Chierchia, F. H. Parianen Lesemann, D. Snower, T. Singer
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:1a226dffe5a549f1a8c35de6ec58e5792021-12-02T16:55:54ZCooperation across multiple game theoretical paradigms is increased by fear more than anger in selfish individuals10.1038/s41598-021-88663-02045-2322https://doaj.org/article/1a226dffe5a549f1a8c35de6ec58e5792021-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88663-0https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Cooperative decisions are well predicted by stable individual differences in social values but it remains unclear how they may be modulated by emotions such as fear and anger. Moving beyond specific decision paradigms, we used a suite of economic games and investigated how experimental inductions of fear or anger affect latent factors of decision making in individuals with selfish or prosocial value orientations. We found that, relative to experimentally induced anger, induced fear elicited higher scores on a cooperation factor, and that this effect was entirely driven by selfish participants. In fact, induced fear brought selfish individuals to cooperate similarly to prosocial individuals, possibly as a (selfish) mean to seek protection in others. These results suggest that two basic threat-related emotions, fear and anger, differentially affect a generalized form of cooperation and that this effect is buffered by prosocial value orientation.G. ChierchiaF. H. Parianen LesemannD. SnowerT. SingerNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2021)
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description	Abstract Cooperative decisions are well predicted by stable individual differences in social values but it remains unclear how they may be modulated by emotions such as fear and anger. Moving beyond specific decision paradigms, we used a suite of economic games and investigated how experimental inductions of fear or anger affect latent factors of decision making in individuals with selfish or prosocial value orientations. We found that, relative to experimentally induced anger, induced fear elicited higher scores on a cooperation factor, and that this effect was entirely driven by selfish participants. In fact, induced fear brought selfish individuals to cooperate similarly to prosocial individuals, possibly as a (selfish) mean to seek protection in others. These results suggest that two basic threat-related emotions, fear and anger, differentially affect a generalized form of cooperation and that this effect is buffered by prosocial value orientation.
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author	G. Chierchia F. H. Parianen Lesemann D. Snower T. Singer
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title	Cooperation across multiple game theoretical paradigms is increased by fear more than anger in selfish individuals
title_short	Cooperation across multiple game theoretical paradigms is increased by fear more than anger in selfish individuals
title_full	Cooperation across multiple game theoretical paradigms is increased by fear more than anger in selfish individuals
title_fullStr	Cooperation across multiple game theoretical paradigms is increased by fear more than anger in selfish individuals
title_full_unstemmed	Cooperation across multiple game theoretical paradigms is increased by fear more than anger in selfish individuals
title_sort	cooperation across multiple game theoretical paradigms is increased by fear more than anger in selfish individuals
publisher	Nature Portfolio
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Cooperation across multiple game theoretical paradigms is increased by fear more than anger in selfish individuals

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