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Processing of fair and unfair offers in the ultimatum game under social observation.
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- 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
- Intention affects fairness processing: Evidence from behavior and representational similarity analysis of event-related potential signals.Human brain mapping · 2023Article
- Neural responses to social decision-making in suicide attempters with mental disorders.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
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- The Decision Strategies of Adolescents with Different Emotional Stabilities in Unfair Situations.Neuroscience bulletin · 2021Article
- Explicit and implicit markers of fairness preeminence in criminal judges.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Social value orientation modulates fairness processing during social decision-making: evidence from behavior and brain potentials.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2021Article
- Me first: Neural representations of fairness during three-party interactions.Neuropsychologia · 2020Article
- Socially alerted cognition evoked by a confederate's mere presence: analysis of reaction-time distributions and delta plots.Psychological research · 2020Article
- The cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying norm-enforcement behaviors under social observation.Experimental brain research · 2020Article
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Abstract
Social context influences social decisions and outcome processing, partially depending on inter-individual differences. The present study investigated social context-dependent modulation of behavior and feedback processing in the ultimatum game (UG) in relation to inter-individual differences in social anxiety. Thirty-two healthy adults completed the UG both under social observation and without observation. Offers were allegedly either randomly generated by the computer or drawn from a pool of offers from previous human players. Overall, fewer unfair than fair offers were accepted. Observation decreased acceptance rates for unfair offers. The feedback-locked feedback-related negativity (FRN) but not the P3 was modulated by observation and fairness, with stronger differential coding of unfair/fair under observation. This effect was strongly correlated with individual levels of social anxiety, with higher levels associated with stronger differential fairness coding in the FRN under observation. Behavioral findings support negative reciprocity in the UG, suggesting that (implicit) social norms overwrite explicit task instructions even in the absence of (alleged) social interaction. Observation enhances this effect. Fairness coding in the FRN was modulated by observation as a function of social anxiety, supporting the notion that altered sensitivity to equality in a social context may contribute to social avoidance in socially anxious individuals.
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