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Charitability, Compulsion, & the Cost of Control

2025-05-11

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Human decision-makers have a well-established preference for controllable environments. We combined a hierarchical gambling task with cross-sectional administration of psychometric surveys and computational cognitive modeling, to assess whether this preference extends to contexts in which decision outcomes benefit others, specifically charitable organizations. In neurotypical individuals (n=100), there was a drama...

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Literature Corpus work: 77caf282-6e4c-51ca-9cfd-3641c9ba877a
DOI: 10.1101/2025.05.07.652768

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