Trial reportThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2018
Neurobiological Mechanisms of Responding to Injustice.
Trial report in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 110 citations in OpenAlex.
- The emerging neuroscience of social punishment: Meta-analytic evidence.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Brain responses to social punishment: a meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2019Pooled it
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- A neurocognitive mechanism for increased cooperation during group formation.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- Acute stress during witnessing injustice shifts third-party interventions from punishing the perpetrator to helping the victim.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Group Formation and the Evolution of Human Social Organization.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024Article
- Leader-follower behavioural coordination and neural synchronization during intergroup conflict.Nature human behaviour · 2023Article
- Neurocomputational Substrates Underlying the Effect of Identifiability on Third-Party Punishment.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Social cognitive processes explain bias in juror decisions.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2023Article
- Development of inferiority-compensation scale among high school students.BMC medical education · 2023Article
- Data-driven evolutionary game models for the spread of fairness and cooperation in heterogeneous networks.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Children's judgments of interventions against norm violations: COVID-19 as a naturalistic case study.Journal of experimental child psychology · 2022Article
- Neural mechanisms of the mood effects on third-party responses to injustice after unfair experiences.Human brain mapping · 2022Article
- Breakdown of utilitarian moral judgement after basolateral amygdala damage.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Oxytocin and the Punitive Hub-Dynamic Spread of Cooperation in Human Social Networks.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
People are particularly sensitive to injustice. Accordingly, deeper knowledge regarding the processes that underlie the perception of injustice, and the subsequent decisions to either punish transgressors or compensate victims, is of important social value. By combining a novel decision-making paradigm with functional neuroimaging, we identified specific brain networks that are involved with both the perception of, and response to, social injustice, with reward-related regions preferentially involved in punishment compared with compensation. Developing a computational model of punishment allowed for disentangling the neural mechanisms and psychological motives underlying decisions of whether to punish and, subsequently, of how severely to punish. Results show that the neural mechanisms underlying punishment differ depending on whether one is directly affected by the injustice, or whether one is a third-party observer of a violation occurring to another. Specifically, the anterior insula was involved in decisions to punish following harm, whereas, in third-party scenarios, we found amygdala activity associated with punishment severity. Additionally, we used a pharmacological intervention using oxytocin, and found that oxytocin influenced participants' fairness expectations, and in particular enhanced the frequency of low punishments. Together, these results not only provide more insight into the fundamental brain mechanisms underlying punishment and compensation, but also illustrate the importance of taking an explorative, multimethod approach when unraveling the complex components of everyday decision-making.
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