ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2014
Distinct neural activation patterns underlie economic decisions in high and low psychopathy scorers.
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- Psychopathy and medial frontal cortex: A systematic review reveals predominantly null relationships.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2024Pooled it
- A Systematic Literature Review of Neuroimaging of Psychopathic Traits.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Pooled it
- A systematic review examining the link between psychopathic personality traits, antisocial behavior, and neural reactivity during reward and loss processing.Personality disorders · 2018Pooled it
- Social preferences and psychopathy in a sample of male prisoners-a pilot study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Dissociating cognitive and affective empathy across psychopathy dimensions: The role of interoception and alexithymia.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Effects of Concomitant Benzodiazepines and Antidepressants Long-Term Use on Social Decision-Making: Results From the Ultimatum Game.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Fairness norm violations in anti-social psychopathic offenders in a repeated trust game.Translational psychiatry · 2019Article
- Behavioral and electrophysiological responses to fairness norm violations in antisocial offenders.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2019Article
- Neural Mechanisms Involved in Social Conformity and Psychopathic Traits: Prediction Errors, Reward Processing and Saliency.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2019Article
- Gender Differences in Behavioral and Neural Responses to Unfairness Under Social Pressure.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Psychopathic traits are associated with cortical and subcortical volume alterations in healthy individuals.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2015Article
- Emotion Regulation in Adolescent Males with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Testing the Effects of Comorbid Conduct Disorder.Brain sciences · 2015Article
- Lower dorsal striatum activation in association with neuroticism during the acceptance of unfair offers.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2015Article
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- Social neuroscience and its potential contribution to psychiatry.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2014Article
- Unfair offers, unfair offenders? Fairness considerations in incarcerated individuals with and without psychopathy.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2013Article
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Abstract
Psychopathic traits affect social functioning and the ability to make adaptive decisions in social interactions. This study investigated how psychopathy affects the neural mechanisms that are recruited to make decisions in the ultimatum game. Thirty-five adult participants recruited from the community underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging scanning while they performed the ultimatum game under high and low cognitive load. Across load conditions, high psychopathy scorers rejected unfair offers in the same proportion as low scorers, but perceived them as less unfair. Among low scorers, the perceived fairness of offers predicted acceptance rates, whereas in high scorers no association was found. Imaging results revealed that responses in each group were associated with distinct patterns of brain activation, indicating divergent decision mechanisms. Acceptance of unfair offers was associated with dorsolateral prefrontal cortex activity in low scorers and ventromedial prefrontal cortex activity in high scorers. Overall, our findings point to distinct motivations for rejecting unfair offers in individuals who vary in psychopathic traits, with rejections in high psychopathy scorers being probably induced by frustration. Implications of these results for models of ventromedial prefrontal cortex dysfunction in psychopathy are discussed.
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