2023
DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.02.560256
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A neurocomputational account of the link between social perception and social action

Lisa M. Bas,
Ian D. Roberts,
Cendri A. Hutcherson
et al.

Abstract: People selectively help others based on perceptions of their merit or need. Here, we develop a neurocomputational account of how these social perceptions translate into social choice. Using a novel fMRI social perception task, we show that both merit and need perceptions recruited the brain’s social inference network. A behavioral computational model identified two non-exclusive mechanisms underlying variance in social perceptions: a consistent tendency to perceive others as meritorious/needy (bias) and a prop… Show more

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