ArticleCommunications biology2023
Reputation risk during dishonest social decision-making modulates anterior insular and cingulate cortex activity and connectivity.
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- Neural mechanisms of confidence propagation in hierarchical partially observable decision-making.iScience · 2025Article
- Neurocomputational mechanisms of personal benefits and justifications in moral decision-making.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Distinct neural computations scale the violation of expected reward and emotion in social transgressions.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Dissociable brain activity for high-stakes deception detection in young and older adults.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Neural underpinnings of ethical decisions in life and death dilemmas in naïve and expert firefighters.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Deontological Guilt Differentially Affects Moral Behaviour in Participants With and Without Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).Clinical psychology & psychotherapyArticle
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Abstract
To explore the neural underpinnings of (dis)honest decision making under quasi-ecological conditions, we used an fMRI adapted version of a card game in which deceptive or truthful decisions are made to an opponent, with or without the risk of getting caught by them. Dishonest decisions were associated to increased activity in a cortico-subcortical circuit including the bilateral anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), anterior insula (AI), left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, supplementary motor area, and right caudate. Crucially, deceptive immoral decisions under reputation risk enhanced activity of - and functional connectivity between - the bilateral ACC and left AI, suggesting the need for heightened emotional processing and cognitive control when making immoral decisions under reputation risk. Tellingly, more manipulative individuals required less involvement of the ACC during risky self-gain lies but more involvement during other-gain truths, pointing to the need of cognitive control only when going against one's own moral code.
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