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Misyak, Jennifer B., Melkonyan, Tigran A., Zeitoun, Hossam and Chater, Nick (2014) Unwritten rules : virtual bargaining underpins social interaction, culture, and society. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 18 (Number 10). pp. 512-519. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2014.05.010 ISSN 1364-6613.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2014.05.010
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.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Strategy & International Business Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Social interaction | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Trends in Cognitive Sciences | ||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier Science | ||||||
ISSN: | 1364-6613 | ||||||
Official Date: | October 2014 | ||||||
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Volume: | Volume 18 | ||||||
Number: | Number 10 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 8 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 512-519 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.tics.2014.05.010 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 27 December 2015 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 27 December 2015 | ||||||
Funder: | European Research Council (ERC), Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC), Leverhulme Trust (LT), Research Councils UK (RCUK), Templeton Foundation | ||||||
Grant number: | 295917-RATIONALITY (ERC), EP/K039830/1 (RCUK) |
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