The Effect of Behavioral Synchrony on Choosing Compensation in Adolescents and Adults' Decision-Making

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1 Department of Cognitive Rehabilitation, Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

2 , Department of Cognitive Sciences, Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

3 Department of Machine Intelligence and Robotics, electrical and computer engineering faculty,, college of engineering, University of Tehran

Abstract

This research aimed to investigate the effect of behavioral synchrony on compensation in sequential decision-making of 15- to 25-year-old people. Regarding the purpose, this research was essential, and the procedure was a semi-experimental study with a between-group design. The study population included all university students of Tehran City and all high school students of Qir City in 2021-2022; among them, 144 students (95 female, 48 males, and one other) were selected as samples by available sampling. Research tools included the provision of step-level public goods game (step-level PGG), tapping synchrony, and entitativity scale. Kruskal-Wallis, chi-squared, and regression analysis of mediation were used to analyze the data. Findings showed that although behavioral synchrony does not affect compensation, it strengthens entitativity. Then, entitativity increased cooperation indirectly by affecting participants’ perception of their partner’s donation. Also, findings showed that the tendency to compensate was more significant in early adulthood than in late adolescence. In conclusion, results indicated that behavioral synchrony is a way to create entitativity and affects people’s perception of others’ intention to enhance prosocial behavior among them. This effect was the same from late adolescence to early adulthood.

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Journal of Applied Psychological Research

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 24 November 2024

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History

  • Receive Date: 27 June 2023
  • Revise Date: 17 August 2023
  • Accept Date: 13 September 2023
  • First Publish Date: 24 November 2024
  • Publish Date: 24 November 2024

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