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SUBMITTER: Bhatt MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2993362 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bhatt Meghana A MA Lohrenz Terry T Camerer Colin F CF Montague P Read PR
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20101101 46
The management and manipulation of our own social image in the minds of others requires difficult and poorly understood computations. One computation useful in social image management is strategic deception: our ability and willingness to manipulate other people's beliefs about ourselves for gain. We used an interpersonal bargaining game to probe the capacity of players to manage their partner's beliefs about them. This probe parsed the group of subjects into three behavioral types according to ...[more]