Context and Animacy Play a Role in Dynamic Decision-Making

Osman, Magda; Ananiadis-Basias, Alexadros

Context and Animacy Play a Role in Dynamic Decision-Making

dc.contributor.author	Osman, Magda
dc.contributor.author	Ananiadis-Basias, Alexadros
dc.contributor.organization	Queen Mary University of London	en
dc.date.accessioned	2018-05-17T13:36:27Z
dc.date.available	2018-05-17T13:36:27Z
dc.date.issued	2013
dc.description.abstract	Perception, judgment, and reasoning are all processes that are sensitive to cues to animacy (i.e. the presence of signals that indicate an object behaves as if it has intentions and internal goals). The present study investigated the following question: Does animacy facilitate decision-making in a dynamic control system? To address this, the present study used a dynamic decision-making task and compared behavior in four different contexts (Abstract, Animate-Social, Inanimate-Social, Inanimate-Non-social). Participants were randomly allocated to one of these contexts, and in each version they were required to learn to manipulate variables in order to bring the dynamic system to a desirable state and maintain it at that level. The findings suggest that it is not animacy per se that facilitates decision-making behavior, but rather the presence of a context. However, animacy made an impact on the type of strategic behavior implemented when interacting with the dynamic system. We argue that context induces general beliefs about causal relationships in dynamic environments that generalize across animate as well as inanimate contexts.	en
dc.identifier.citation	Osman, M., Ananiadis-Basias, A., Context and Animacy Play a Role in Dynamic Decision-Making. Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation (JEMI), 2013, vol. 9, nr 2 : System Theories and Practice. Ed. by M. Baran, K. Śliwa, s. 61-78	en
dc.identifier.issn	2299-7326
dc.identifier.uri	https://open.icm.edu.pl/handle/123456789/15327
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu - National Louis Univeristy	en
dc.rights	Uznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Na tych samych warunkach 3.0 Polska	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/pl/	*
dc.subject	animacy	en
dc.subject	dynamic decision making	en
dc.subject	context	en
dc.subject	causality	en
dc.title	Context and Animacy Play a Role in Dynamic Decision-Making	en
dc.type	article	en