Keeping up with the Joneses: Interpersonal Prediction Errors and the Correlation of Behavior in a Tandem Sequential Choice Task

Terry Lohrenz; Meghana Bhatt; Nathan Apple; P. Read Montague

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003275

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Keeping up with the Joneses: Interpersonal Prediction Errors and the Correlation of Behavior in a Tandem Sequential Choice Task

Terry Lohrenz ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Terry Lohrenz, Meghana Bhatt

Affiliation Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America
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Meghana Bhatt ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Terry Lohrenz, Meghana Bhatt

Affiliation Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America
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Nathan Apple,

Affiliation Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America
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P. Read Montague

* E-mail: read@vt.edu

Affiliations Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Keeping up with the Joneses: Interpersonal Prediction Errors and the Correlation of Behavior in a Tandem Sequential Choice Task

Terry Lohrenz,
Meghana Bhatt,
Nathan Apple,
P. Read Montague

Published: October 24, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003275

About the Authors

Terry Lohrenz

Contributed equally to this work with: Terry Lohrenz, Meghana Bhatt

Affiliation Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America

Meghana Bhatt

Contributed equally to this work with: Terry Lohrenz, Meghana Bhatt

Affiliation Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America

Nathan Apple

Affiliation Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America

P. Read Montague

* E-mail: read@vt.edu

Affiliations Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TL NA PRM. Performed the experiments: TL NA. Analyzed the data: TL MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NA. Wrote the paper: TL MB PRM.

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