Anlló, HernánBavard, SophieBenmarrakchi, Fatima EzzhraBonagura, DarlaCerrotti, FabienCicue, MironaGueguen, MaelleGuzmán, EugenioKadieva, DzerassaKobayashi, MaikoLukumon, GafariSartorio, MarcoYang, JiongZinchenko, OksanaBahrami, BahadorSilva, JaimeHertz, UriKonova, Anna B.Li, JianO'Madagain, CathalNavajas, JoaquinReyes M., GabrielSarabi-Jamab, AtiyeShestakova, AnnaSukumaran, BhasiWatanabe, KatsumiPalminteri, Stefano2025-03-042025-03-042024Anlló H, Bavard S, Benmarrakchi F, Bonagura D, Cerrotti F, Cicue M, Gueguen M, Guzmán EJ, Kadieva D, Kobayashi M, Lukumon G, Sartorio M, Yang J, Zinchenko O, Bahrami B, Silva Concha J, Hertz U, Konova AB, Li J, O'Madagain C, Navajas J, Reyes G, Sarabi-Jamab A, Shestakova A, Sukumaran B, Watanabe K, Palminteri S. Comparing experience- and description-based economic preferences across 11 countries. Nat Hum Behav. 2024 Aug;8(8):1554-1567. doi: 10.1038/s41562-024-01894-9. Epub 2024 Jun 14. Erratum in: Nat Hum Behav. 2024 Jul;8(7):1429. doi: 10.1038/s41562-024-01946-0.https://hdl.handle.net/11447/9892Recent evidence indicates that reward value encoding in humans is highly context dependent, leading to suboptimal decisions in some cases, but whether this computational constraint on valuation is a shared feature of human cognition remains unknown. Here we studied the behaviour of n = 561 individuals from 11 countries of markedly different socioeconomic and cultural makeup. Our findings show that context sensitivity was present in all 11 countries. Suboptimal decisions generated by context manipulation were not explained by risk aversion, as estimated through a separate description-based choice task (that is, lotteries) consisting of matched decision offers. Conversely, risk aversion significantly differed across countries. Overall, our findings suggest that context-dependent reward value encoding is a feature of human cognition that remains consistently present across different countries, as opposed to description-based decision-making, which is more permeable to cultural factors.23 p.enDecision makingComportamiento socialSocial behaviorHuman cognitionRiskCultureArticlehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01946-0