ArticleHuman brain mapping2017
Mortality salience reduces the discrimination between in-group and out-group interactions: A functional MRI investigation using multi-voxel pattern analysis.
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- Social comparison in the brain: A coordinate-based meta-analysis of functional brain imaging studies on the downward and upward comparisons.Human brain mapping · 2018Pooled it
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- Neurocomputational Substrates Underlying the Effect of Identifiability on Third-Party Punishment.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Reminders of Mortality: Investigating the Effects of Different Mortality Saliences on Somatosensory Neural Activity.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- An fMRI investigation of the intention-outcome interactions in second- and third-party punishment.Brain imaging and behavior · 2022Article
- The Critical Role of the Right Dorsal and Ventral Anterior Insula in Reciprocity: Evidence From the Trust and Ultimatum Games.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Article
- Connectome-based model predicts individual differences in propensity to trust.Human brain mapping · 2019Article
- 5-HTTLPR moderates the association between interdependence and brain responses to mortality threats.Human brain mapping · 2017Article
- Neural substrates of context- and person-dependent altruistic punishment.Human brain mapping · 2017Article
- When sex doesn't sell to men: mortality salience, disgust and the appeal of products and advertisements featuring sexualized women.Motivation and emotion · 2017Article
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Abstract
As a fundamental concern of human beings, mortality salience impacts various human social behaviors including intergroup interactions; however, the underlying neural signature remains obscure. Here, we examined the neural signatures underlying the impact of mortality reminders on in-group bias in costly punishment combining a second-party punishment task with multivariate pattern analysis of fMRI data. After mortality salience (MS) priming or general negative affect priming, participants received offers from racial in-group and out-group proposers and decided how to punish proposers by reducing their payoffs. We revealed that MS priming attenuated in-group bias and dampened the discriminated activation patterns pertaining to group identities in regions previously implicated in costly punishment, including dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, temporo-parietal junction, anterior cingulate cortex, and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. The group identity represented in multivariate patterns of activity of these regions predicted in-group bias for the control condition, i.e., the stronger discriminative representations of group identities in these regions; the larger was the in-group bias. Furthermore, the in-group bias was reliably decoded by distributed activation patterns in the punishment-related networks but only in the control condition and not in the MS condition. These findings elucidate the neural underpinnings of the effects of mortality reminders on intergroup interaction. Hum Brain Mapp 38:1281-1298, 2017. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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