Valuing Others: Evidence from Economics, Developmental Psychology, and Neurobiology
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2017
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Book chapter
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Abstract
Human social skills are widely studied among very different disciplines.
In this chapter, we review, discuss, and relate evidence concerning the process of
valuing others’ perspectives, preferences, and behaviors from an economic, psychological, and neurobiological viewpoint. This process of valuing others (or otherregarding preferences) can be understood as weighing others’ preferences to adapt
our own behavior and achieve adequate social interaction. We first review economic
research related to decision-making in social contexts, with emphasis on how
decision-making has integrated other-regarding preferences into the decisionmaking algorithm. By means of social and developmental psychology research, we
then review how social skills develop from identification to understanding others.
Finally, we discuss the neurobiological mechanisms underlying social skills and
social decision-making, focusing on those systems that can participate in processes
of valuing others preferences. As a conclusion, we highlight five points that we
believe an interdisciplinary approach should take into account. We thus intend to
generate a starting point for building a more extensive explicatory bridge among the
different disciplines that study complex human social behavior.
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Citation
Billeke P., Soto-Icaza P., Aspé-Sánchez M., Villarroel V., Rodríguez-Sickert C. (2017) Valuing Others: Evidence from Economics, Developmental Psychology, and Neurobiology. In: Ibáñez A., Sedeño L., García A. (eds) Neuroscience and Social Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68421-5_2
Keywords
Neuroeconomics, Decision-making, Other-regarding preferences, Mentalization, Theory of mind, Social cognition, Interdisciplinary approach, Game theory