Team Decision Making with Social Learning: Human Subject Experiments

• Published in: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) pp. 6971 - 6975
• Main Authors: Rhim, Joong Bum, Goyal, Vivek K
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.04.2018
• Subjects: Bayes methods; Bayesian hypothesis testing; Cognition; Decision making; distributed detection and fusion; Error probability; human behavior; Indexes; Measurement; sequential decision making; social learning; Testing

We demonstrate that human decision-making agents do social learning whether it is beneficial or not. Specifically, we consider binary Bayesian hypothesis testing with multiple agents voting sequentially for a team decision, where each one observes earlier-acting agents' votes as well as a condi...