Social conformity is a heuristic when individual risky decision-making is disrupted

• Mark A. Orloff ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mark A. Orloff, Dongil Chung, Xiaosi Gu

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC; Virginia Tech; Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America, Graduate Program in Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health; Virginia Tech; Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America, Center for Mind and Brain; University of California Davis; Davis, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6958-5479

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• Dongil Chung ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mark A. Orloff, Dongil Chung, Xiaosi Gu

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC; Virginia Tech; Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering; UNIST; Ulsan; South Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1999-0326

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• Xiaosi Gu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mark A. Orloff, Dongil Chung, Xiaosi Gu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Department of Neuroscience; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; New York, New York, United States of America

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• Xingchao Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery; Beijing Tiantan Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University; Beijing; China

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• Zhixian Gao,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery; Beijing Tiantan Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University; Beijing; China

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• Guiding Song,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery; Beijing Tiantan Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University; Beijing; China

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• Chandana Tatineni,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Methodist Family Medicine Residency in Dallas; Dallas, Texas, United States of America

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• Shuai Xu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery; Beijing Tiantan Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University; Beijing; China

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• Brooks Casas ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: casas@vtc.vt.edu (BC); chiup@vtc.vt.edu (PHC)

  Affiliations Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC; Virginia Tech; Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America, Graduate Program in Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health; Virginia Tech; Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Psychology; Virginia Tech; Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

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• Pearl H. Chiu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: casas@vtc.vt.edu (BC); chiup@vtc.vt.edu (PHC)

  Affiliations Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC; Virginia Tech; Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America, Graduate Program in Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health; Virginia Tech; Roanoke, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Psychology; Virginia Tech; Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8767-7406

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