Trial reportSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2021
Mortality threat mitigates interpersonal competition: an EEG-based hyperscanning study.
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- Reviewing digital collaborative interactions with multimodal hyperscanning through an ever-growing database.Frontiers in neuroergonomics · 2026Pooled it
- Dispositional empathy as a driver of inter-individual neural phase synchrony.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Is what I think what you think? Multilayer network-based inter-brain synchrony approach.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Gratitude enhances widespread dynamic cooperation and inter-brain synchronization in females.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Love in the time of Zoom: how intimacy modulates brain and behaviour synchrony in face-to-face versus video communication.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Interbrain neural correlates of self and other integration in joint statistical learning.NPJ science of learning · 2024Article
- Interpersonal Competition in Elderly Couples: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Hyperscanning Study.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- The presence of adjacent others facilitates interpersonal neural synchronization in the left prefrontal cortex during a simple addition task.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Awareness of death has been shown to influence human cognition and behavior. Yet, how mortality threat (MT) impacts our daily social behavior remains elusive. To address this issue, we developed a dyadic experimental model and recruited 86 adults (43 dyads) to complete two computer-based tasks (i.e. competitive and cooperative button-pressing). We manipulated dyads' awareness of death [MT vs neutral control (NC)] and simultaneously measured their neurophysiological activity using electroencephalography during the task. Several fundamental observations were made. First, the MT group showed significantly attenuated competition and slightly promoted cooperation. Second, compared to NC, MT significantly decreased gamma-band inter-brain synchronization (IBS) in the competitive context, which was associated with increased subjective fear of death within dyads. Notably, those effects were context-specific: we did not observe comparable results in the cooperative context. Finally, a machine-learning approach was successfully used to discriminate between the MT and NC groups based on accumulated IBS. Together, these findings indicate that MT to some extent mitigates interpersonal competition, and such mitigation might be associated with changes in gamma-band IBS.
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