University of Mannheim, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany.
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany.
Curr Opin Psychol. 2022 Feb;43:271-277. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.08.008. Epub 2021 Aug 16.
Memory has evolved to guide our decisions in the present and to prepare us for future interactions with the environment. Within the social domain, memory can help to decide with whom to cooperate. This provides a unique opportunity to study memory from a functional perspective. Although several lines of research have demonstrated that many forms of reciprocal cooperation require memory, most of the research does not support the assumption of a highly specialized cheater-detection module that specifically serves to promote the detection of uncooperative interaction partners. Instead, the literature supports the flexible recruitment of domain-general guessing and memory mechanisms that serve to continuously predict the future behavior of others based on situational and person-specific factors and use violations of these expectations to update the predictive models of who can be trusted to cooperate in reciprocal interactions.
记忆的进化旨在指导我们当下的决策，并为我们与环境的未来互动做好准备。在社会领域，记忆可以帮助我们决定与谁合作。这为从功能角度研究记忆提供了独特的机会。尽管有几条研究线索表明，许多形式的互惠合作都需要记忆，但大多数研究并不支持存在一个专门用于检测不合作的互动伙伴的高度专业化的欺骗检测模块的假设。相反，文献支持灵活招募领域一般性的猜测和记忆机制，这些机制用于根据情境和个体因素不断预测他人的未来行为，并利用对这些预期的违反来更新可以信任谁在互惠互动中合作的预测模型。
