{"id":208890,"date":"2025-03-17T08:03:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/how-information-is-presented-can-drive-cooperative-decision-making"},"modified":"2025-03-17T08:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:03:21","slug":"how-information-is-presented-can-drive-cooperative-decision-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/how-information-is-presented-can-drive-cooperative-decision-making","title":{"rendered":"How information is presented can drive cooperative decision-making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-information-is-presented-can-drive-cooperative-decision-making2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our ability to cooperate with others may be influenced by how our attention is captured and directed, as much as by how altruistic we are feeling.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new study by researchers at the University of Birmingham jointly with the University of Zurich, choices made for individual reward or cooperatively for a joint reward can be influenced by presenting information to participants in configurations that naturally draw their <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/attention\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">attention<\/a>. The results are published in <i>Communications Psychology.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Cooperation\u2014defined as the ability of individuals to incur a personal cost for the benefit of a group\u2014is a fundamental aspect of human behavior. Understanding how we can foster cooperation is essential for tackling many global challenges, from <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/climate+change\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">climate change<\/a> to the spread of infectious diseases\u2014and understanding what motivates people to cooperate is key to this process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our ability to cooperate with others may be influenced by how our attention is captured and directed, as much as by how altruistic we are feeling. According to a new study by researchers at the University of Birmingham jointly with the University of Zurich, choices made for individual reward or cooperatively for a joint reward [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}