Social heuristics shape intuitive cooperation

By David G. Rand, Alex Peysakhovich, Gordon T. Kraft-Todd, George E. Newman, Owen Wurzbacher, Martin A. Nowak, Joshua D. Greene. Nature Communications, 2014

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Everyday Consequences of Analytic Thinking (2015, positive): “According to this hypothesis, people learn cooperation strategies through social interaction, with the most successful strategies becoming intuitive through positive reinforcement (Rand et al., 2014).”
Conducting Clinical Research Using Crowdsourced Convenience Samples. (2016, background): “Because interactive tasks are familiar to MTurk workers, it is also possible to create believable experiments that involve only pseudointeraction with others (Rand et al. 2014).”
Consequentialist conditional cooperation in social dilemmas with imperfect information (2017, background): “This is evidence for the notion that rather than acting optimally in each situation, humans have social heuristics which are tuned to work across many environments (Rand et al., 2014; Hauser et al., 2014; Ouss & Peysakhovich, 2015; Arechar et al., 2016; Mao et al., 2017; Niella et al., 2016).”
Investigating an alternate form of the cognitive reflection test (2016, background): “In one study’s sample, the average MTurk worker had completed a staggering 1,500 MTurk jobs, of which 300 were academic studies (Rand et al., 2014).”
Social value orientation moderates the effects of intuition versus reflection on responses to unfair ultimatum offers (2017, result): “Our findings are also in line with the social heuristics hypothesis (Bear & Rand, 2016; Rand & Kraft-Todd, 2014; Rand et al., 2014; Rand et al., 2012), which asserts that intuitive decisions rely on social preferences, whereas reflective decisions foster profit maximization regardless of these…”
Why We Cooperate (2014, background): “The social heuristics hypothesis (SHH; Rand, Greene, & Nowak, 2012; Rand et al., 2014) provides one explanation for this intrinsically motivated cooperation.”
Social Media, News Consumption, and Polarization: Evidence from a Field Experiment (2020, background): “Both statements are based on a political empathy index by Reit et al. (2017). Fourth, participants are asked if they think the Democrat and Republican parties have a lot (3), some (2), a few (1), or almost no good ideas (0) (party ideas).”
Cooperate without looking: Why we care what people think and not just what they do (2015, background): “These same individuals, when serving as laboratory subjects, may apply these heuristics and cooperate even when it is not worthwhile to do so (25, 32, 33).”
Rethinking fast and slow based on a critique of reaction time reverse inference (2015, neutral): “Our arguments and results do not directly address the use of data from time-pressure and priming experiments, or the debates surrounding those results 5,8,57-66 .”
Cooperating with machines (2017, positive): “A main challenge has been that human cooperation does not require sheer computational power, but rather relies on intuition [11], cultural norms [12], emotions and signals [13, 14, 15, 16], and pre-evolved dispositions toward cooperation [17].”
Crowdsourcing Consumer Research (2017, background): “On MTurk, the self-reported number of academic studies completed in the past (DeVoe and House 2016; Rand et al. 2014), or the number of studies that the participant completed for the same researcher (which is visible in the downloadable “Results” file associated with the study), might be useful…”
Validating the demographic, political, psychological, and experimental results obtained from a new source of online survey respondents (2019, background): “Some scholars are concerned that MTurk is “overfished” and that many respondents have become professional survey takers (Rand et al., 2014; Chandler et al., 2015).”
Intuition, deliberation, and the evolution of cooperation (2016, background): “Intuition, conversely, acts as a social heuristic (24, 25), implementing the behavior that is typically advantageous (cooperation, unless p and a are both sufficiently small, because the cost of missing out on reciprocal cooperation outweighs the cost of needlessly cooperating in one-shot games (14)”
Maintaining cooperation in complex social dilemmas using deep reinforcement learning (2017, background): “are good at navigating real world social dilemmas using social heuristics that have been tuned via evolution and social learning (Tomasello, 2009; Hoffman et al., 2015; Peysakhovich & Rand, 2015; Rand et al., 2014) . Our goal will be to give our artiﬁcial agents simple versions of these heuristi”
The Generalizability of Survey Experiments* (2015, result): “…for which there is a growing concern that respondents have evolved to be less and less like respondents in other surveys (even survey panels).13 Rand et al. (2014) report that in MTurk data collected between February 2011 and February 2013, the median MTurk respondent reported participation in…”