To Blame or Not? Modulating Third-Party Punishment with the Framing Effect

Yang, Jiamiao; Gu, Ruolei; Liu, Jie; Deng, Kexin; Huang, Xiaoxuan; Luo, Yuejia; Cui, Fang

doi:10.1007/s12264-021-00808-3

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“…Furthermore, people can distinguish the moral level of others’ behavior during pain empathy and exhibit higher pain empathy levels toward people who engage in ethical behavior ( Cameron et al, 2022 ). A recent study demonstrated that people are more likely to subject strangers who are “harming others” to physical pain than strangers who are “not helping others.” This finding suggests that human pain empathy is influenced by moral judgments ( Yang et al, 2022 ).…”

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Effect of doctor–patient news-induced moral judgments on pain empathy for doctors and patients in China

Zhang

Yang

et al. 2022

Front. Neurosci.

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ObjectivePain empathy’s preferential nature tends to trigger prejudice and intergroup conflicts. Given the current degree of proliferation of doctor–patient conflict news in China, this study aims to determine whether readers of doctor–patient news-initiated moral judgments prefer pain empathy for doctors or patients.Materials and methodsThis study utilized localized doctor–patient news with high or low moral performance (based on morality ratings of patients’ behaviors) as moral-judgment-eliciting materials, and painful pictures as pain empathy-eliciting materials. The event-related potential (ERP) technique was utilized to assess moral judgment’s effect on the cognitive empathy component and to investigate electroencephalogram signals’ accuracy in classifying four brain response patterns when facing doctor or patient is experiencing or not experiencing pain.ResultsUnder low moral text material, participants exhibited smaller mean wave amplitude of positive 300 (P3) and late positive potential (LPP) to painful pictures than non-painful pictures when facing patients; under high moral text material, participants exhibited larger mean wave amplitude of P3 and LPP to painful pictures than non-painful pictures when facing doctors. Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals’ classification accuracy was significant in 0–1,000 ms in both high and low moral judgments, but the classification accuracy was higher in low moral judgments in some cognitive empathy stages (0.51, 0.53–0.55, 0.66–0.79, and 0.88–1 s).ConclusionUnder low moral judgment, individuals pay less attention to the patient’s (perpetrator’s) pain; under high moral judgment, individuals empathize with the doctor (the person praised), showing that news-induced moral judgment can sway readers’ empathy for different social groups. In cognitive empathy, individuals’ brain representations are more discriminatory under low than high moral judgments when confronted with pain by doctors and patients, which provides insight into objectively recognizing group bias.

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confidence: 87%

Effect of doctor–patient news-induced moral judgments on pain empathy for doctors and patients in China

Zhang

Yang

et al. 2022

Front. Neurosci.

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“…Nevertheless, all of the offers we used in the Intervene-or-Watch task were what real human players may make in the dictator game (Doñate-Buendía et al, 2022; Engel, 2011). Such use of deception is a common practice of previous studies (Blain et al, 2022; FeldmanHall et al, 2014; Leliveld et al, 2012; McAuliffe et al, 2015; Qu et al, 2018; Stallen et al, 2018; J. Yang et al, 2022; Ying et al, 2022).…”

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The “motive cocktail” in altruistic behaviors

Wu,

Ren,

Liu

et al. 2023

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Prosocial motives such as social equality and efficiency are key to altruistic behaviors. However, predicting the range of altruistic behaviors in varying contexts and among different individuals proves challenging if we limit ourselves to one or two motives, as most previous studies have done. Here we demonstrate the numerous, interdependent motives in altruistic behaviors and the possibility to disentangle them through behavioral experimental data and computational modeling. In one laboratory experiment (N=157) and one pre-registered online replication (N=1258) across 100 different situations, we found that both third-party punishment and helping behaviors aligned best with a model of seven socioeconomic motives, referred to as a “motive cocktail”, including two compound motives. For instance, the “inequality inattention” motives imply that individuals, when confronted with costly interventions, behave as if the inequality between others barely exists. The motive cocktail model also provides a unified explanation for a range of phenomena in the literature.

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“…Accordingly, we analyzed whether the activation level of the amygdala and/or AI would vary as a function of anxiety feeling during resource sharing. Meanwhile, prosociality also engages many brain areas such as the temporoparietal junction (TPJ), inferior frontal gyrus, and middle/posterior cingulate cortex, which have been closely associated with social functions (e.g., mentalizing, perspective‐taking, and moral reasoning) that subserves prosocial behavior (Bellucci et al, 2020 ; Morelli et al, 2014 ; Yang et al, 2022 ). We investigated whether the impact of anxiety on resource sharing would manifest as altered connectivity between these areas and the core regions of the anxiety circuitry (i.e., the amygdala and AI).…”

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Threat‐induced anxiety and selfishness in resource sharing: Behavioral and neural evidence

Cui

Huang

Liu

et al. 2023

Human Brain Mapping

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In real life, it is not unusual that we face potential threats (i.e., physical stimuli and environments that may cause harm or danger) with other individuals together, yet it remains largely unknown how threat‐induced anxious feelings influence prosocial behaviors such as resource sharing. In this study, we investigated this question by combining functional magnetic resonance imaging and a novel paradigm. Together with an anonymous partner, each participant faced the possibility of receiving a 10‐s noise administration, which had a low or high probability to be a threat (i.e., the intensity of noise can induce a high level of unpleasantness). Each participant first reported her/his immediate feeling of anxiety about the current situation (being threatened by the unpleasant noise), then decided how to split a number of resources (which could relieve the noise) between her/him and the partner. Behavioral results revealed that the participants showed a selfish bias in the threat conditions than in the safe conditions, and that self‐reported anxiety feeling significantly predicted this bias. Functional magnetic resonance imaging results revealed that: (1) the activation level of the anterior insula was correlated with self‐reported anxiety and (2) the connectivity between the anterior insula and the temporoparietal junction was sensitive to the modulating effect of anxiety on the selfish bias. These findings indicate the neural correlates of the association between threat‐induced anxiety and prosocial tendencies in social interactions.

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To Blame or Not? Modulating Third-Party Punishment with the Framing Effect

Cited by 4 publications

References 84 publications

Effect of doctor–patient news-induced moral judgments on pain empathy for doctors and patients in China

Effect of doctor–patient news-induced moral judgments on pain empathy for doctors and patients in China

The “motive cocktail” in altruistic behaviors

Threat‐induced anxiety and selfishness in resource sharing: Behavioral and neural evidence

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