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Neural signatures of fairness-related normative decision making in the ultimatum game: a coordinate-based meta-analysis.
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101 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Gender Differences in Large-Scale and Small-Scale Spatial Ability: A Systematic Review Based on Behavioral and Neuroimaging Research.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2019Pooled it
- A domain-general brain network underlying emotional and cognitive interference processing: evidence from coordinate-based and functional connectivity meta-analyses.Brain structure & function · 2018Pooled it
- Brain responses to social norms: Meta-analyses of fMRI studies.Human brain mapping · 2018Pooled it
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- The neural correlate of mid-value offers in ultimatum game.PloS one · 2019Trial
- Psilocybin and MDMA reduce costly punishment in the Ultimatum Game.Scientific reports · 2018Trial
- Neurobiological Mechanisms of Responding to Injustice.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018Trial
- Coercive and legitimate authority impact tax honesty: evidence from behavioral and ERP experiments.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2017Trial
- Neurocomputational Mechanisms Linking Future Interaction Prospects to Reactive and Proactive Costly Punishment.Neuroscience bulletin · 2026Article
- Betrayal and unfairness are linked through insula-valuation network dynamics.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Neural correlates of inequity perception in human-robot relationships: An ERP study of solo and joint experiences.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Differences in other-directed emotion regulation tracks connectivity between amygdala and prefrontal regions during fairness decisions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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Abstract
The willingness to incur personal costs to enforce prosocial norms represents a hallmark of human civilization. Although recent neuroscience studies have used the ultimatum game to understand the neuropsychological mechanisms that underlie the enforcement of fairness norms; however, a precise characterization of the neural systems underlying fairness-related norm enforcement remains elusive. In this study, we used a coordinate-based meta-analysis on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies using the ultimatum game with the goal to provide an additional level of evidence for the refinement of the underlying neural architecture of this human puzzling behavior. Our results demonstrated a convergence of reported activation foci in brain networks associated with psychological components of fairness-related normative decision making, presumably reflecting a reflexive and intuitive system (System 1) and a reflective and deliberate system (System 2). System 1 (anterior insula, ventromedial prefrontal cortex [PFC]) may be associated with the reflexive and intuitive responses to norm violations, representing a motivation to punish norm violators. Those intuitive responses conflict with economic self-interest, encoded in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), which may engage cognitive control from a reflective and deliberate System 2 to resolve the conflict by either suppressing (ventrolateral PFC, dorsomedial PFC, left dorsolateral PFC, and rostral ACC) the intuitive responses or over-riding self-interest (right dorsolateral PFC). Taken together, we suggest that fairness-related norm enforcement recruits an intuitive system for rapid evaluation of norm violations and a deliberate system for integrating both social norms and self-interest to regulate the intuitive system in favor of more flexible decision making.
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