Social decisions often require individuals to balance conflicts between their own selfish interests and the need for equality. The way information about available options is presented can have an impact on how people process information and make social decisions. In this study, we examined the effect of information presentation on social decisions in a mini-dictator game, where participants must make binary choices about how to allocate money between themselves and another participant. We conducted two tasks with different presentation styles: the attribute-based task, where attributes such as own payoffs or others' payoffs were displayed sequentially, and the alternative-based task, where alternatives were displayed sequentially. We found that participants in the attribute-based task made more selfish choices and were less sensitive to equality than those in the alternative-based task. The direction of information search and the complexity level of information processing played a mediating role in the effect of task on social decisions. Our findings highlight the relationship between information search and social decisions, shedding light on the mechanisms and processes that underlie social decision-making.

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信息搜索处理影响社会决策

社会决策往往要求个人平衡自身私利和平等需要之间的冲突。有关可用选项的信息的呈现方式可能会影响人们处理信息和做出社会决策的方式。在这项研究中，我们研究了迷你独裁者游戏中信息呈现对社会决策的影响，其中参与者必须就如何在自己和另一个参与者之间分配金钱做出二元选择。我们以不同的呈现方式执行了两个任务：基于属性的任务，其中顺序显示自己的收益或他人的收益等属性，以及基于替代的任务，其中顺序显示替代方案。我们发现，与基于替代性任务的参与者相比，基于属性的任务的参与者做出了更多自私的选择，并且对平等的敏感度较低。信息搜索的方向和信息处理的复杂程度在任务对社会决策的影响中起中介作用。我们的研究结果强调了信息搜索和社会决策之间的关系，揭示了社会决策背后的机制和过程。