Social cognition and social choice tasks

Another agent’s mental state must be inferred, or money must be allocated between the participant and another player; inference accuracy and allocation patterns are the measures.

This family contains 6 tasks.

Task	Short definition	Processes
Dictator Game Task	One-shot allocation task in which a proposer unilaterally divides an endowment between self and a passive rece…	4
False Belief Task	Wimmer & Perner–style narrative in which a protagonist holds a belief the participant knows to be false; corre…	4
Prisoner’s Dilemma Task	Two-player one-shot or iterated game with cooperate/defect choices and asymmetric payoffs; choice patterns ind…	6
Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task	Choice of the best-matching mental-state word for a photograph of the eye region; accuracy indexes complex emo…	4
Trust Game Task	Two-stage exchange in which an investor transfers a fraction of an endowment (multiplied on receipt), and a tr…	5
Ultimatum Game Task	Proposer offers a division of an endowment; responder accepts or rejects. Rejection of unfair offers indexes i…	4