Unwritten rules: virtual bargaining underpins social interaction, culture, and society.

Abstract:

:Many social interactions require humans to coordinate their behavior across a range of scales. However, aspects of intentional coordination remain puzzling from within several approaches in cognitive science. Sketching a new perspective, we propose that the complex behavioral patterns - or 'unwritten rules' - governing such coordination emerge from an ongoing process of 'virtual bargaining'. Social participants behave on the basis of what they would agree to do if they were explicitly to bargain, provided the agreement that would arise from such discussion is commonly known. Although intuitively simple, this interpretation has implications for understanding a broad spectrum of social, economic, and cultural phenomena (including joint action, team reasoning, communication, and language) that, we argue, depend fundamentally on the virtual bargains themselves.

journal_name

Trends Cogn Sci

authors

Misyak JB,Melkonyan T,Zeitoun H,Chater N

doi

10.1016/j.tics.2014.05.010

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2014-10-01 00:00:00

pages

512-9

issue

10

eissn

1364-6613

issn

1879-307X

pii

S1364-6613(14)00131-4

journal_volume

18

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