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Strategic Decision-Making and Social Skills: Integrating Behavioral Economics and Social Cognition Research
Schilbach, Leonhard; Mojzisch, Andreas; Leder, Johannes (2016): Strategic Decision-Making and Social Skills: Integrating Behavioral Economics and Social Cognition Research, in: International Journal of Financial Studies : open access journal, Basel: MDPI, Jg. 4, Nr. 22, S. 1–24, doi: 10.3390/ijfs4040022.
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International Journal of Financial Studies : open access journal
ISSN:
2227-7072
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Year of publication:
2016
Volume:
4
Issue:
22
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Language:
English
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Abstract:
Strategic decisions are affected by beliefs about the expectations of others and their possible decisions. Thus, strategic decisions are influenced by the social context and by beliefs about other actors’ levels of sophistication. The present study investigated whether strategic decision-making, as measured by the beauty contest game, is associated with social skills, as measured by the Autism Quotient (AQ). In line with our hypothesis, we found that social skills were positively related to successful strategic decision-making. Furthermore, results showed a curvilinear relationship between steps of reasoning in the beauty contest game and social skills, indicating that very high as well as very low scoring individuals on the social skills subscale of the AQ engaged in high-levels of strategic thinking.
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strategic decision-making
beauty contest game
social skills
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Article
Activation date:
December 7, 2016
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