ArticleHuman brain mapping2018
Common and distinct neural correlates of self-serving and prosocial dishonesty.
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- Unraveling the neural basis of repeated moral decisions with mouse tracking and fMRI.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Reputation risk during dishonest social decision-making modulates anterior insular and cingulate cortex activity and connectivity.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Topology of the lateral visual system: The fundus of the superior temporal sulcus and parietal area H connect nonvisual cerebrum to the lateral occipital lobe.Brain and behavior · 2023Article
- Spontaneous dishonesty does not specifically engage the perigenual anterior cingulate cortex.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- The prefrontal cortex and (uniquely) human cooperation: a comparative perspective.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2022Review
- Modulating the Activity of the VMPFC With tDCS Alters the Social Framing Effect.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- The Role of Reward System in Dishonest Behavior: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study.Brain topography · 2021Article
- Contribution of self- and other-regarding motives to (dis)honesty.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Neural mechanisms of deception in a social context: an fMRI replication study.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- I lie, why don't you: Neural mechanisms of individual differences in self-serving lying.Human brain mapping · 2019Article
- Common and distinct neural correlates of self-serving and prosocial dishonesty.Human brain mapping · 2018Article
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Abstract
People often anticipate certain benefits when making dishonest decisions. In this article, we aim to dissociate the neural-cognitive processes of (1) dishonest decisions that focus on overall benefits of being dishonest (regardless of whether the benefits are self-serving or prosocial) from (2) those that distinguish between self-serving and prosocial benefits. Thirty-one participants had the opportunity to maximize their monetary benefits by voluntarily making dishonest decisions while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). In each trial, the monetary benefit of being dishonest was either self-serving or prosocial. Behaviorally, we found dissociable patterns of dishonest decisions: some participants were dishonest for overall benefits, while others were primarily dishonest for self-serving (compared with prosocial) benefits. When provided an opportunity to be dishonest for either self-serving or prosocial benefits, participants with a stronger overall tendency to be dishonest had stronger vmPFC activity, as well as stronger functional connectivity between the vmPFC and dlPFC. Furthermore, vmPFC activity was associated with decisions to be dishonest both when the benefits of being dishonest were self-serving and prosocial. Conversely, high self-serving-biased participants had stronger striatum activity and stronger functional connectivity between the striatum and middle-mPFC when they had a chance to be dishonest for self-serving (compared with prosocial) benefits. Altogether, we showed that activity in (and functional connectivity between) regions in the valuation (e.g., vmPFC and Str) and executive control (e.g., dlPFC and mmPFC) systems play a key role in registering the social-related goal of dishonest decisions.
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