ArticleFrontiers in psychology2015
The effect of altruistic tendency on fairness in third-party punishment.
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- Intrinsic functional connectivity of the frontoparietal network predicts inter-individual differences in the propensity for costly third-party punishment.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- "Watching Eyes" Triggers Third-Party Punishment: The Role of Emotion Within the Eyes.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Multiple-Brain Connectivity During Third Party Punishment: an EEG Hyperscanning Study.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Give Me a Chance! Sense of Opportunity Inequality Affects Brain Responses to Outcome Evaluation in a Social Competitive Context: An Event-Related Potential Study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2018Article
- Fourth-Party Evaluation of Third-Party Pro-social Help and Punishment: An ERP Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Behavioral and neuronal determinants of negative reciprocity in the ultimatum game.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2016Article
- Face-to-Face Sharing with Strangers and Altruistic Punishment of Acquaintances for Strangers: Young Adolescents Exhibit Greater Altruism than Adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
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Abstract
Third-party punishment, as an altruistic behavior, was found to relate to inequity aversion in previous research. Previous researchers have found that altruistic tendencies, as an individual difference, can affect resource division. Here, using the event-related potential (ERP) technique and a third-party punishment of dictator game paradigm, we explored third-party punishments in high and low altruists and recorded their EEG data. Behavioral results showed high altruists (vs. low altruists) were more likely to punish the dictators in unfair offers. ERP results revealed that patterns of medial frontal negativity (MFN) were modulated by unfairness. For high altruists, high unfair offers (90:10) elicited a larger MFN than medium unfair offers (70:30) and fair offers (50:50). By contrast, for low altruists, fair offers elicited larger MFN while high unfair offers caused the minimal MFN. It is suggested that the altruistic tendency effect influences fairness consideration in the early stage of evaluation. Moreover, the results provide further neuroscience evidence for inequity aversion.
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