Karar Verme Davranışı ve Minimal Sosyal Koşul

Although decision-making processes are typically studied in laboratory settings with isolated individuals to control for external factors, in real-world situations, decisions are often made in social environments, in the presence of and sometimes in coordination with others. The aim of the current study was to investigate the effects of social conditions on individuals’ decision-making performance in both economic and moral contexts. A total of 44 same-gender pairs (42 female and 46 male participants) constituted the sample for this study. Each pair was required to complete both economic and moral tasks under three types of social conditions, namely, “individual,” “joint,” and “joint with gaze-cueing.” Furthermore, eye- and mouse-tracking technologies were utilized to record participants’ responses to the decision tasks, offering detailed information about their attention patterns and motor behavior. We hypothesized that even a minimal social context would influence people’s decisions, as manifested in their gaze and mouse responses. The results revealed that the minimalist social condition, in which participants neither communicated nor interacted with each other, affected their decision-making performance. The interplay among social conditions, task types, and stimulus type was identified as one of the key factors influencing the decision-making process in this setting.