Abstract
Decisions are not necessarily easy to separate into a planning and an execution phase and the decision-making process can often be reflected in the movement associated with the decision. Since knowledge of the decision-making process or beliefs that underlie other individual’s decisions can be relevant in social interactions we have set out to study how relevant processes are expressed in movement patterns, and how these movement patterns are perceived by an observer. In this talk I will focus on the first part of this project, where we have investigated the expression of decision-making processes in spatiotemporal features of simple mouse-tracking paths using formalized definitions of concepts relevant to decision-making and social interactions. I will also discuss the second part, where we aim to investigate how decision related movement patterns are perceived by an observer.

About the speaker
Ida Selbing
Division of Psychology, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and the Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University