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Decision-Making Based on Social Conventional Rules by Elderly People

Information used by older adults engaging in a social decision making task of judging a protagonist as a good or a bad person was investigated. Older (n = 100, 50 women, mean age = 63.6 years) and younger (n = 100, 50 women, mean age = 25.7 years) adults participated in a web-based survey. In Experi...

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Autores principales: Komeda, Hidetsugu, Eguchi, Yoko, Kusumi, Takashi, Kato, Yuka, Narumoto, Jin, Mimura, Masaru
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6103243/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30154746
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01412
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author Komeda, Hidetsugu
Eguchi, Yoko
Kusumi, Takashi
Kato, Yuka
Narumoto, Jin
Mimura, Masaru
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Eguchi, Yoko
Kusumi, Takashi
Kato, Yuka
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description Information used by older adults engaging in a social decision making task of judging a protagonist as a good or a bad person was investigated. Older (n = 100, 50 women, mean age = 63.6 years) and younger (n = 100, 50 women, mean age = 25.7 years) adults participated in a web-based survey. In Experiment 1, we assessed participants’ rapid decision-making processes when making good or bad judgments after reading consecutive sentences without reviewing previously read sentences. The percentages of good judgments were analyzed. In Experiment 2, two protagonists engaging in a deliberate decision-making process were presented, and participants were asked to judge better and worse protagonists. The percentages of behavior-based judgments were analyzed. Results of Experiment 1 indicated that older adults judged protagonists as “good” more often than younger adults. Especially, older adults judged protagonists with good behavior as being “good.” In Experiment 2, older adults made behavior-based judgments more than younger people. Additionally, older and younger adults used information on personalities of protagonists for making judgments in situations with bad outcomes, or incongruent. Moreover, multiple regression analysis suggested that people with more general trust engaged more, whereas people with more caution engaged less in making behavior-based judgments.
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spelling pubmed-61032432018-08-28 Decision-Making Based on Social Conventional Rules by Elderly People Komeda, Hidetsugu Eguchi, Yoko Kusumi, Takashi Kato, Yuka Narumoto, Jin Mimura, Masaru Front Psychol Psychology Information used by older adults engaging in a social decision making task of judging a protagonist as a good or a bad person was investigated. Older (n = 100, 50 women, mean age = 63.6 years) and younger (n = 100, 50 women, mean age = 25.7 years) adults participated in a web-based survey. In Experiment 1, we assessed participants’ rapid decision-making processes when making good or bad judgments after reading consecutive sentences without reviewing previously read sentences. The percentages of good judgments were analyzed. In Experiment 2, two protagonists engaging in a deliberate decision-making process were presented, and participants were asked to judge better and worse protagonists. The percentages of behavior-based judgments were analyzed. Results of Experiment 1 indicated that older adults judged protagonists as “good” more often than younger adults. Especially, older adults judged protagonists with good behavior as being “good.” In Experiment 2, older adults made behavior-based judgments more than younger people. Additionally, older and younger adults used information on personalities of protagonists for making judgments in situations with bad outcomes, or incongruent. Moreover, multiple regression analysis suggested that people with more general trust engaged more, whereas people with more caution engaged less in making behavior-based judgments. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6103243/ /pubmed/30154746 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01412 Text en Copyright © 2018 Komeda, Eguchi, Kusumi, Kato, Narumoto and Mimura. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6103243/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30154746
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01412
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