Time to decide: Diurnal variations on the speed and quality of human decisions

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Leone, Maria Juliana; Fernandez Slezak, Diego; Golombek, Diego Andrés; Sigman, Mariano
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2017
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Human behavior and physiology exhibit diurnal fluctuations. These rhythms are entrained by light and social cues, with vast individual differences in the phase of entrainment - referred as an individual's chronotype - ranging in a continuum between early larks and late owls. Understanding whether decision-making in real-life situations depends on the relation between time of the day and an individual's diurnal preferences has both practical and theoretical implications. However, answering this question has remained elusive because of the difficulty of measuring precisely the quality of a decision in real-life scenarios. Here we investigate diurnal variations in decision-making as a function of an individual's chronotype capitalizing on a vast repository of human decisions: online chess servers. In a chess game, every player has to make around 40 decisions using a finite time budget and both the time and quality of each decision can be accurately determined. We found reliable diurnal rhythms in activity and decision-making policy. During the morning, players adopt a prevention focus policy (slower and more accurate decisions) which is later modified to a promotion focus (faster but less accurate decisions), without daily changes in performance.
Fil: Leone, Maria Juliana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología; Argentina
Fil: Fernandez Slezak, Diego. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Computación; Argentina
Fil: Golombek, Diego Andrés. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología; Argentina
Fil: Sigman, Mariano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; Argentina
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Chess
Circadian Rhythms
Decision-Making
Human Chronobiology
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Time to decide: Diurnal variations on the speed and quality of human decisions
title Time to decide: Diurnal variations on the speed and quality of human decisions
spellingShingle Time to decide: Diurnal variations on the speed and quality of human decisions
Leone, Maria Juliana
Chess
Circadian Rhythms
Decision-Making
Human Chronobiology
title_short Time to decide: Diurnal variations on the speed and quality of human decisions
title_full Time to decide: Diurnal variations on the speed and quality of human decisions
title_fullStr Time to decide: Diurnal variations on the speed and quality of human decisions
title_full_unstemmed Time to decide: Diurnal variations on the speed and quality of human decisions
title_sort Time to decide: Diurnal variations on the speed and quality of human decisions
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Leone, Maria Juliana
Fernandez Slezak, Diego
Golombek, Diego Andrés
Sigman, Mariano
author Leone, Maria Juliana
author_facet Leone, Maria Juliana
Fernandez Slezak, Diego
Golombek, Diego Andrés
Sigman, Mariano
author_role author
author2 Fernandez Slezak, Diego
Golombek, Diego Andrés
Sigman, Mariano
author2_role author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Chess
Circadian Rhythms
Decision-Making
Human Chronobiology
topic Chess
Circadian Rhythms
Decision-Making
Human Chronobiology
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.2
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Human behavior and physiology exhibit diurnal fluctuations. These rhythms are entrained by light and social cues, with vast individual differences in the phase of entrainment - referred as an individual's chronotype - ranging in a continuum between early larks and late owls. Understanding whether decision-making in real-life situations depends on the relation between time of the day and an individual's diurnal preferences has both practical and theoretical implications. However, answering this question has remained elusive because of the difficulty of measuring precisely the quality of a decision in real-life scenarios. Here we investigate diurnal variations in decision-making as a function of an individual's chronotype capitalizing on a vast repository of human decisions: online chess servers. In a chess game, every player has to make around 40 decisions using a finite time budget and both the time and quality of each decision can be accurately determined. We found reliable diurnal rhythms in activity and decision-making policy. During the morning, players adopt a prevention focus policy (slower and more accurate decisions) which is later modified to a promotion focus (faster but less accurate decisions), without daily changes in performance.
Fil: Leone, Maria Juliana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología; Argentina
Fil: Fernandez Slezak, Diego. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Computación; Argentina
Fil: Golombek, Diego Andrés. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología; Argentina
Fil: Sigman, Mariano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; Argentina
description Human behavior and physiology exhibit diurnal fluctuations. These rhythms are entrained by light and social cues, with vast individual differences in the phase of entrainment - referred as an individual's chronotype - ranging in a continuum between early larks and late owls. Understanding whether decision-making in real-life situations depends on the relation between time of the day and an individual's diurnal preferences has both practical and theoretical implications. However, answering this question has remained elusive because of the difficulty of measuring precisely the quality of a decision in real-life scenarios. Here we investigate diurnal variations in decision-making as a function of an individual's chronotype capitalizing on a vast repository of human decisions: online chess servers. In a chess game, every player has to make around 40 decisions using a finite time budget and both the time and quality of each decision can be accurately determined. We found reliable diurnal rhythms in activity and decision-making policy. During the morning, players adopt a prevention focus policy (slower and more accurate decisions) which is later modified to a promotion focus (faster but less accurate decisions), without daily changes in performance.
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