Prosocial Capabilities in Alzheimer's Patients

Prosocial capabilities in Alzheimer's patients.

OBJECTIVES To examine the decision making of Alzheimer's patients in a simple, classic game focusing on their capabilities to implement social norms and common social preferences. METHODS Patients with Stage I (very mild and mild) Alzheimer's disease (AD) were asked to participate in a dictator game, a type of game in which a subject has to decide how to allocate a certain amount of money bet...

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Social capabilities preserved in Alzheimer patients

Alzheimer patients in the early stage of the disease were asked to participate in the Dictator game, a game in which each subject has to decide how to allocate a certain amount of money between himself and another person. The game allows the experimenter to view the influence of social norms and preferences on the decisionmaking process. When the data from the experiment are compared with the r...