Neural signatures of fairness‐related normative decision making in the ultimatum game: A coordinate‐based meta‐analysis

Feng, Chunliang; Luo, Yuejia; Krueger, Frank

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“…This contrast revealed a cluster that extended over a large portion of the mPFC (Figure 2), including both the DMPFC (areas 8 and 9) and VMPFC (area 32), in the same region as recently identified within a meta‐analysis of UG studies (Feng et al., 2015; Gabay et al., 2014). This large cluster survived whole brain cluster correction ( p < 0.001 uncorrected voxel‐wise; p < 0.05 FWE cluster‐correction) at the level recommended in recent analyses of corrections for multiple comparisons (Eklund et al., 2016; Woo et al., 2014).…”

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“…Recent meta‐analyses have highlighted that the DMPFC and the Insula are key regions that respond differentially to equitable and inequitable offers in the UG (Feng et al., 2015; Gabay et al., 2014). Similarly, a large number of different paradigms have shown that several regions including both the DMPFC and VMPFC respond to ingroup and outgroup members differently (Cikara & Van Bavel, 2014; Cikara et al., 2014; Harris & Fiske, 2006; Hein et al., 2010; Molenberghs et al., 2016).…”

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“…Intriguingly, previous studies have identified that activity in the regions of the DMPFC and VMPFC is increased in response to unfair offers relative to fair offers (Feng et al., 2015; Gabay et al., 2014). Surprisingly, we identified this pattern of activity in these regions but only for offers from ingroup members, not for outgroup or neutral individuals.…”

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“…Masks for these regions were selected based on the meta‐analyses of Feng et al. (2015) and Gabay et al. (2014).…”

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“…Studies using such approaches also implicate the mPFC in processing the fairness of other individuals, including when interacting during economic games such as the ultimatum game (UG) (Feng, Luo, & Krueger, 2015; Gabay, Radua, Kempton, & Mehta, 2014; Güth, Schmittberger, & Schwarze, 1982; Koenigs & Tranel, 2007; Sanfey, Rilling, Aronson, Nystrom, & Cohen, 2003). In the UG there are two players – the ‘proposer’ who makes an offer of how to split a pot of money with a ‘responder’.…”

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Not on my team: Medial prefrontal cortex responses to ingroup fusion and unfair monetary divisions

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ObjectivePeople are highly attuned to fairness, with people willingly suffering personal costs to prevent others benefitting from unfair acts. Are fairness judgments influenced by group alignments? A new theory posits that we favor ingroups and denigrate members of rival outgroups when our personal identity is fused to a group. Although the mPFC has been separately implicated in group membership and fairness processing, it is unclear whether group alignments affect medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) activity in response to fairness. Here, we examine the contribution of different regions of the mPFC to processing from ingroup and outgroup members and test whether its response differs depending on how fused we are to an ingroup.MethodsSubjects performed rounds of the Ultimatum Game, being offered fair or unfair divisions of money from supporters of the same soccer team (ingroup), the fiercest rival (outgroup) or neutral individuals whilst undergoing functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI).ResultsStrikingly, people willingly suffered personal costs to prevent outgroup members benefitting from both unfair and fair offers. Activity across dorsal and ventral (VMPFC) portions of the mPFC reflected an interaction between fairness and group membership. VMPFC activity in particular was consistent with it coding one's fusion to a group, with the fairness by group membership interaction correlating with the extent that the responder's identity was fused to the ingroup.ConclusionsThe influence of fusion on social behavior therefore seems to be linked to processing in the VMPFC.

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“…Masks for these regions were selected based on the meta‐analyses of Feng et al. (2015) and Gabay et al. (2014).…”

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A dimensional approach to modeling symptoms of neuropsychiatric disorders in the marmoset monkey

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Santangelo

Shiba

et al. 2017

Developmental Neurobiology

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Some patients suffering from the same neuropsychiatric disorder may have no overlapping symptoms whilst others may share symptoms common to other distinct disorders. Therefore, the Research Domain Criteria initiative recognises the need for better characterisation of the individual symptoms on which to focus symptom‐based treatment strategies. Many of the disorders involve dysfunction within the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and so the marmoset, due to their highly developed PFC and small size, is an ideal species for studying the neurobiological basis of the behavioural dimensions that underlie these symptoms.Here we focus on a battery of tests that address dysfunction spanning the cognitive (cognitive inflexibility and working memory), negative valence (fear generalisation and negative bias) and positive valence (anhedonia) systems pertinent for understanding disorders such as ADHD, Schizophrenia, Anxiety, Depression and OCD. Parsing the separable prefrontal and striatal circuits and identifying the selective neurochemical modulation (serotonin vs dopamine) that underlie cognitive dysfunction have revealed counterparts in the clinical domain. Aspects of the negative valence system have been explored both at individual‐ (trait anxiety and genetic variation in serotonin transporter) and circuit‐based levels enabling the understanding of generalisation processes, negative biases and differential responsiveness to SSRIs. Within the positive valence system, the combination of cardiovascular and behavioural measures provides a framework for understanding motivational, anticipatory and consummatory aspects of anhedonia and their neurobiological mechanisms. Together, the direct comparison of experimental findings in marmosets with clinical studies is proving an excellent translational model to address the behavioural dimensions and neurobiology of neuropsychiatric symptoms. © 2016 The Authors. Developmental Neurobiology Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Develop Neurobiol 77: 328–353, 2016

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Diffusion of responsibility attenuates altruistic punishment: A functional magnetic resonance imaging effective connectivity study

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Liu

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Humans altruistically punish violators of social norms to enforce cooperation and pro-social behaviors. However, such altruistic behaviors diminish when others are present, due to a diffusion of responsibility. We investigated the neural signatures underlying the modulations of diffusion of responsibility on altruistic punishment, conjoining a third-party punishment task with event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging and multivariate Granger causality mapping. In our study, participants acted as impartial third-party decision-makers and decided how to punish norm violations under two different social contexts: alone (i.e., full responsibility) or in the presence of putative other third-party decision makers (i.e., diffused responsibility). Our behavioral results demonstrated that the diffusion of responsibility served as a mediator of context-dependent punishment. In the presence of putative others, participants who felt less responsible also punished less severely in response to norm violations. Our neural results revealed that underlying this behavioral effect was a network of interconnected brain regions. For unfair relative to fair splits, the presence of others led to attenuated responses in brain regions implicated in signaling norm violations (e.g., AI) and to increased responses in brain regions implicated in calculating values of norm violations (e.g., vmPFC, precuneus) and mentalizing about others (dmPFC). The dmPFC acted as the driver of the punishment network, modulating target regions, such as AI, vmPFC, and precuneus, to adjust altruistic punishment behavior. Our results uncovered the neural basis of the influence of diffusion of responsibility on altruistic punishment and highlighted the role of the mentalizing network in this important phenomenon. Hum Brain Mapp 37:663-677, 2016. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Neural signatures of fairness‐related normative decision making in the ultimatum game: A coordinate‐based meta‐analysis

Cited by 176 publications

References 104 publications

Not on my team: Medial prefrontal cortex responses to ingroup fusion and unfair monetary divisions

Not on my team: Medial prefrontal cortex responses to ingroup fusion and unfair monetary divisions

A dimensional approach to modeling symptoms of neuropsychiatric disorders in the marmoset monkey

Diffusion of responsibility attenuates altruistic punishment: A functional magnetic resonance imaging effective connectivity study

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