ABSTRACT

Two studies show that being socially mindful only requires a minimal social context: The presence of a specific other is enough to bring out greater social mindfulness in a one-shot social decision-making task that focuses participants’ decisions on leaving or limiting other people’s choice. Study 1 contrasts a control condition (with no second chooser) with two conditions in which a confederate chooses after the participant. We find that participants are socially mindful by leaving choice to the confederate more often. Study 2 reveals that a specified, identifiable other is left choice more often than an unspecified next chooser. The physical presence of others may thus be enough to elicit greater social mindfulness as manifested in simple and low-cost social decision-making.

摘要

两项研究表明，具有社交意识的人只需要最小的社交情境：特定他人的存在足以在一项一次性的社会决策任务中带出更大的社交思想力，该任务将参与者的决策集中在离开或限制他人的选择上。研究1将控制条件（无第二选择器）与同盟者在参与者之后进行选择的两个条件进行了对比。我们发现参与者通过在同盟者身上更频繁地选择来保持社交意识。研究2显示，指定的，可识别的其他人比未指定的下一个选择者更容易被选择。因此，其他人的身体存在可能足以引起更大的社会正念，这在简单而低成本的社会决策中就可以体现出来。