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Influences of State and Trait Affect on Behavior, Feedback-Related Negativity, and P3b in the Ultimatum Game.
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- Feedback Related Negativity Amplitude is Greatest Following Deceptive Feedback in Autistic Adolescents.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Belief Updating during Social Interactions: Neural Dynamics and Causal Role of Dorsomedial Prefrontal Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
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- Event-related potentials to rare visual targets and negative symptom severity in a transdiagnostic psychiatric sample.Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2021Article
- Temporal Fluctuation of Mood in Gaming Task Modulates Feedback Negativity: EEG Study With Virtual Reality.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- The Effect of Social Distance on Intertemporal Choice of Reward Processing: An Event-Related Potentials Study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- The semiotics of the message and the messenger: How nonverbal communication affects fairness perception.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2019Article
- Reward Responsiveness and Inhibition Traits Differentially Predict Economic Biases in Gain and Loss Contexts.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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- The Influence of Emotion on Fairness-Related Decision Making: A Critical Review of Theories and Evidence.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Review
- Differences in fairness and trust between lean and corpulent men.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2016Article
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Abstract
The present study investigates how different emotions can alter social bargaining behavior. An important paradigm to study social bargaining is the Ultimatum Game. There, a proposer gets a pot of money and has to offer part of it to a responder. If the responder accepts, both players get the money as proposed by the proposer. If he rejects, none of the players gets anything. Rational choice models would predict that responders accept all offers above 0. However, evidence shows that responders typically reject a large proportion of all unfair offers. We analyzed participants' behavior when they played the Ultimatum Game as responders and simultaneously collected electroencephalogram data in order to quantify the feedback-related negativity and P3b components. We induced state affect (momentarily emotions unrelated to the task) via short movie clips and measured trait affect (longer-lasting emotional dispositions) via questionnaires. State happiness led to increased acceptance rates of very unfair offers. Regarding neurophysiology, we found that unfair offers elicited larger feedback-related negativity amplitudes than fair offers. Additionally, an interaction of state and trait affect occurred: high trait negative affect (subsuming a variety of aversive mood states) led to increased feedback-related negativity amplitudes when participants were in an angry mood, but not if they currently experienced fear or happiness. We discuss that increased rumination might be responsible for this result, which might not occur, however, when people experience happiness or fear. Apart from that, we found that fair offers elicited larger P3b components than unfair offers, which might reflect increased pleasure in response to fair offers. Moreover, high trait negative affect was associated with decreased P3b amplitudes, potentially reflecting decreased motivation to engage in activities. We discuss implications of our results in the light of theories and research on depression and anxiety.
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