H2020Индивидуална стипендия2021–2024

SIND · The Social INdividual’s Decisions: how are they shaped by group affiliation during collective decisions?

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2021-07-24 → 2024-04-20
Финансиране от ЕС: 174 806 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Принадлежността към групи (като държава или ЕС) влияе върху това как вземаме общи решения и как възприемаме света. Разбирането на тези психологически механизми помага да се разбере как хората от различни групи си сътрудничат, учат и обновяват информацията си.

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The Social INdividual’s Decisions: how are they shaped by group affiliation during collective decisions?

When I wrote the proposal for the fellowship, I was conducting my research on collective decisions in London, while being immersed in Brexit and discussions around it. Political outcomes often result from collective decisions made by individual citizens who elect political parties supporting inward-looking policies and national identity. I couldn't help but wonder about the psychological mechanisms driving such collective decisions. How does affiliation to one's country and the European Union play a role in this? My project's scientific objective was to characterize the influence of group affiliation at various levels (e.g., country, continent) on collective decisions, starting with how we perceive the world around us when in groups. Understanding the psychological mechanisms underlying how people learn and decide together goes beyond political choices. Many of our decisions are made collectively, involving friends, family, schoolmates, colleagues, fellow students, and citizens. Cooperation with individuals from different groups is a crucial factor for societal learning and improvement. The project aimed to examine the interaction of accuracy, responsibility, and group affiliation aspects in collective decisions to understand how groups learn and update information. Individual differences related to gender and political attitudes were considered. For the first time, the project explored the position of the multilevel dimension in-group affiliation during collective decisions. It was constructed by integrating knowledge from literature across various disciplines, including social psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, economics, and political science. The conducted experiments bridged two areas of study—group affiliation and group decision-making—to comprehend how different groups impact the processing and updating of information during collective decisions.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

“…we are—and always were—ready to pay any price to be accepted by society.” Hannah Arendt. Belonging to a group helps maintain a shared social identity. Individuals can belong to a political party, to a country, to a union of countries etc. How do these multiple group affiliations shape individuals’ decisions within groups? Through an interdisciplinary approach drawing on cognitive science, neuroscience, behavioural economics, social psychology and political science, this project aims to characterize the cognitive mechanisms underlying the influence of group affiliation on collective decision-making. We will investigate how different stages of cognitive processes—from information processing to consequential decisions— are affected by the nature of the collective: multilevel in-groups and outgroup. Previously established experimental paradigms in individual behaviour will be applied to group decision making to test the predictions that 1) group affiliation disrupts accurate information processing, 2) group affiliation increases alignment and responsibility sharing with group members for cooperative and leadership decisions, and 3) the group affiliation influence on decisions will vary as a function of individuals’ political attitudes and gender. Given the relevance of the proposed research questions to the current political climate in Europe, they will be further explored in the political context: the experiments will be tested online on a European population sample in a dedicated political research centre, in order to help explain individual citizens’ behaviours in our group-based society. The findings of this project will provide insights into the reasons driving an increase of inward-looking policies (Brexit and rise of populist parties in Europe), which represents a threat to the European Research Area that rests on strong collaborations between different European countries and their citizens.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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