How does monetary loss empathy modulate generosity in economic sharing behavior? An ERPs study

Jin, Jia; Wang, Ailian; Liu, Jiaoyang; Pan, Jing; Lyu, Dong

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107407

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“…The amplitude of P3a generated under friend conditions is greater than stranger conditions, indicating that the bottom-up attention processing system is more activated under friend conditions and more attention resources are devoted to friends. In other words, they are more concerned about the choices made by friends than strangers, which is consistent with previous research (Ma et al, 2011 ; Cui et al, 2017 ; Jin et al, 2020 ). The early stage of the evaluation of rewards is manipulated not only by the amount of reward but also by emotion.…”

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confidence: 91%

The Effect of Social Distance on Intertemporal Choice of Reward Processing: An Event-Related Potentials Study

Tang

Guo

et al. 2021

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Social factors can affect the processing of intertemporal choice, but the influence of social distance on the rewarding process of intertemporal choice is unclear. Therefore, by designing a novel cognitive resource competition paradigm for undifferentiated intertemporal choice, this article aims to explore the influence of social distance on intertemporal choice reward processing at the electrophysiological level. It was found that compared with the stranger condition, P3a is greater in the friend condition, which means social distance is evaluated in the early stage. In addition, different brain regions in the early stages are taking charge of processing the soon-but-small (SS) and later-but-lager (LL) reward in intertemporal choice. There is an interaction effect between social distance (friend vs. stranger) and intertemporal choice (SS reward vs. LL reward) on P3b. Under friend conditions, the P3b induced by LL reward is more positive than SS reward. Under the condition of choosing the LL reward, the P3b induced by friend is more positive than stranger. This result shows that in the latter stage of reward processing, the evaluation process of time discounting is less sensitive in LL reward for friend caused by lack of cognitive resources which is occupied when dealing with social distance in advance, and thus the degree of time discount was reduced. These findings demonstrate that P3b is the key index of time discounting and immediate and delayed rewards are valued in different brain regions.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

The Effect of Social Distance on Intertemporal Choice of Reward Processing: An Event-Related Potentials Study

Tang

Guo

et al. 2021

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…A larger P300 was observed in the proposer-not-in-need condition than in its opposite condition, irrespective of the fairness of the offer. As outlined in the introduction, high motivational stimuli would induce more positive P300 than low motivational stimuli (Jin et al, 2020;Leng & Zhou, 2009;Ma et al, 2011). Accordingly, the P300 results support our hypothesis that the motivational salience and cognitive load toward the proposals were higher in the proposer-not-in-need condition than in the proposer-in-need condition.…”

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confidence: 82%

“…Research shows that P300 amplitude can be affected by social roles in decision-making. For instance, observing one's own reward outcome would induce larger P300 than observing that of strangers (Jin, Wang, Liu, Pan, & DongLyu, 2020;Ma et al, 2011). These researchers suggest that high motivational stimuli (i.e., one's own reward) might evoke more positive P300 than low motivational stimuli (i.e., strangers' reward).…”

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confidence: 99%

You are excusable! Neural correlates of economic neediness on empathic concern and fairness perception

Wang

Lian

Lyu

et al. 2021

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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There is ample experimental evidence showing that the proposers' social role is related to individuals' fairness perception in the Ultimatum Game (UG). However, various social roles, e.g., degree of economic neediness, have different influences on fairness perception, yet it has not been well studied. In this study, we adapted the UG paradigm and recorded electroencephalography (EEG) to probe the neural signatures of whether and how the degree of neediness influences fairness perception. Behavioral results showed that responders are prone to accept unfair offers from proposers in need more than those who are not in need. At the brain level, MFN (medial frontal negativity) was more negative-going in response to unfair than fair offers for not-in-need proposers. In contrast, we found a reversed MFN difference response to unfair and fair offers for in-need proposers, showing a strongly pure altruistic phenomenon. Moreover, we found smaller P300 amplitude was induced in the proposer-in-need condition, compared with its counterpart, while a negative correlation between empathy rating and P300 amplitude in the proposer-inneed condition regardless of the offers' fairness. The current results indicate that the degree of neediness might reduce fairness perception by promoting the empathic concern toward the in-need proposers rather than decreasing the empathic concern for the not-in-need proposers.

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“…Many researchers have used ERPs to study related cognitive neural mechanisms (Yoder and Decety, 2014;Jin et al, 2020;Xu et al, 2020). These studies have identified two emotionrelated ERP components that have been frequently studied in previous decision neuroscience studies, which are closely related to the processing of attention allocation (P2) and emotional arousal (late positive potential, LPP).…”

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Neural Responses to Mandatory and Voluntary Donation Impact Charitable Giving Decisions: An Event-Related Potentials Study

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The present study aimed to explore the influence of donation amounts on donation decisions in different donation contexts and to reveal the psychological mechanisms. Furthermore, we focused on how to enhance individuals’ intention to donate voluntarily. We designed an experiment on donation decisions, employing event-related potentials (ERPs) to probe the effect of psychological mechanisms on donation decisions by detecting the neural basis of donation decision-making. Based on S-O-R (stimulus-organism-response) theory, we used donation contexts and donation amounts (stimuli) to induce psychological activity in the participants (organism) and then influence individual donation decision behaviors (response). Moreover, we applied psychological reactance (PR) theory to discuss the effect of donation context on decisions and the corresponding psychological process. The behavioral results showed that donation contexts (mandatory vs. voluntary) were significantly related to the donation amounts (i.e., less vs. more money that the charity received than money that the participants donated). At the ERP level, compared with mandatory donation, voluntary donation evoked a larger P2 amplitude when the charity received less money. In addition, a larger mean amplitude of LPP was elicited by voluntary donation compared to mandatory donation. This study provides practical implications for charity organizers to guide people to donate voluntarily.

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How does monetary loss empathy modulate generosity in economic sharing behavior? An ERPs study

Cited by 15 publications

References 34 publications

The Effect of Social Distance on Intertemporal Choice of Reward Processing: An Event-Related Potentials Study

The Effect of Social Distance on Intertemporal Choice of Reward Processing: An Event-Related Potentials Study

You are excusable! Neural correlates of economic neediness on empathic concern and fairness perception

Neural Responses to Mandatory and Voluntary Donation Impact Charitable Giving Decisions: An Event-Related Potentials Study

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