PMID- 24399928
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20140218
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1662-4548 (Print)
IS  - 1662-453X (Electronic)
IS  - 1662-453X (Linking)
VI  - 7
DP  - 2013 Dec 25
TI  - How social cognition can inform social decision making.
PG  - 259
LID - 10.3389/fnins.2013.00259 [doi]
LID - 259
AB  - Social decision-making is often complex, requiring the decision-maker to make 
      inferences of others' mental states in addition to engaging traditional 
      decision-making processes like valuation and reward processing. A growing body of 
      research in neuroeconomics has examined decision-making involving social and 
      non-social stimuli to explore activity in brain regions such as the striatum and 
      prefrontal cortex, largely ignoring the power of the social context. Perhaps more 
      complex processes may influence decision-making in social vs. non-social 
      contexts. Years of social psychology and social neuroscience research have 
      documented a multitude of processes (e.g., mental state inferences, impression 
      formation, spontaneous trait inferences) that occur upon viewing another person. 
      These processes rely on a network of brain regions including medial prefrontal 
      cortex (MPFC), superior temporal sulcus (STS), temporal parietal junction, and 
      precuneus among others. Undoubtedly, these social cognition processes affect 
      social decision-making since mental state inferences occur spontaneously and 
      automatically. Few studies have looked at how these social inference processes 
      affect decision-making in a social context despite the capability of these 
      inferences to serve as predictions that can guide future decision-making. Here we 
      review and integrate the person perception and decision-making literatures to 
      understand how social cognition can inform the study of social decision-making in 
      a way that is consistent with both literatures. We identify gaps in both 
      literatures-while behavioral economics largely ignores social processes that 
      spontaneously occur upon viewing another person, social psychology has largely 
      failed to talk about the implications of social cognition processes in an 
      economic decision-making context-and examine the benefits of integrating social 
      psychological theory with behavioral economic theory.
FAU - Lee, Victoria K
AU  - Lee VK
AD  - Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University Durham, NC, USA.
FAU - Harris, Lasana T
AU  - Harris LT
AD  - Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University Durham, NC, USA ; 
      Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University Durham, NC, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
DEP - 20131225
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Front Neurosci
JT  - Frontiers in neuroscience
JID - 101478481
PMC - PMC3872305
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - computers
OT  - economic games
OT  - person perception
OT  - social cognition
OT  - social decision-making
EDAT- 2014/01/09 06:00
MHDA- 2014/01/09 06:01
PMCR- 2013/01/01
CRDT- 2014/01/09 06:00
PHST- 2013/10/11 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2013/12/10 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2014/01/09 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/01/09 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/01/09 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2013/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.3389/fnins.2013.00259 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Front Neurosci. 2013 Dec 25;7:259. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00259.