Triangulating the Neural, Psychological, and Economic Bases of Guilt Aversion

Chang, Luke J.; Smith, Alec; Dufwenberg, Martin; Sanfey, Alan G.

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2011.02.056

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“…Importantly, left AI and dlPFC showed interactions between action agency and empathic pain, indicating that these regions may integrate the processing of self-generated errors with the social consequences of actions (Koban et al, 2013a). This integration process should be crucial for the generation of moral emotions such as guilt and shame that are associated with self-generated actions that have socially negative consequences (Chang et al, 2011;Koban et al, 2013a;Wagner et al, 2012b;Wagner et al, 2011;Yu et al, 2013).…”

Section: Social Influences On the Monitoring Of Self-generated Actionsmentioning

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Brain systems underlying the affective and social monitoring of actions: An integrative review

Koban

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2014

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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(max 170 words)Action monitoring allows the swift detection of conflicts, errors, and the rapid evaluation of outcomes. These processes are crucial for learning, adaptive behavior, and for the regulation of cognitive control. Our review discusses neuroimaging and electrophysiological studies that have explored the contribution of emotional and social factors during action monitoring. Metaanalytic brain activation maps demonstrate reliable overlap of error monitoring, emotional, and social processes in the dorsal mediofrontal cortex (dMFC), lateral prefrontal areas, and anterior insula (AI). Cumulating evidence suggests that action monitoring is modulated by trait anxiety and negative affect, and that activity of the dMFC and the amygdala during action monitoring might contribute to the 'affective tagging' of actions along a valence dimension. The role of AI in action monitoring may be the integration of outcome information with self-agency and social context factors, thereby generating more complex situation-specific and conscious emotional feeling states. Our review suggests that action-monitoring processes operate at multiple levels in the human brain, and are shaped by dynamic interactions with affective and social processes.Keywords: Anterior insula; dorsal cingulate cortex; mediofrontal cortex; amygdala; error monitoring; ERN; feedback processing; social cognition; emotions; cognitive control; emotioncognition interactions; meta-analysis 3 Overview and motivationIn order to adapt their behavior, to detect and learn from errors, and ultimately to increase their chances of survival, humans and other animals have to monitor their actions (Rabbitt, 1966). Flexible regulation of behavior requires its constant evaluation in terms of performance and outcomes, as well as in terms of costs and future consequences. Action and error monitoring have been studied for several decades in psychology and neuroscience (for previous reviews see (Etkin et al., 2011;Moser et al., 2013;Pessoa, 2008;Proudfit et al., 2013;Shackman et al., 2011;Shenhav et al., 2013), we propose that error and action monitoring is an intrinsically affective and social process. However, we show that meta-analytic activation maps support overlapping brain responses to error processing, emotional, and social information processing not only in dMFC, but also in several other brain regions, including anterior insula and lateral prefrontal cortex.Further, recent intracranial electrophysiological recordings showed error-related activity in the amygdala, suggesting this limbic region may contribute to affective responses to errors and negative action outcomes. In the closing part, we outline an integrative framework for 4 understanding the brain systems underlying affective and social interactions with action monitoring, which may be crucial to foster behavioral control in real life.

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Section: Social Influences On the Monitoring Of Self-generated Actionsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Brain systems underlying the affective and social monitoring of actions: An integrative review

Koban

Pourtois

2014

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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“…7 The calibration of one's behavior regulating programs will be determined by moods, emotional capital (consequent on past goal accomplishments or forgone achievements), present demands, available outcomes, and belief-dependent emotions based on expectations about a partner (e.g. see Chang et al, 2010Chang et al, , 2011. So, while we expect the output of these programs to show individual differences in degree (i.e., variance in relative strengths of regulatory programs or emotions), we do not expect them to show differences in kind (i.e., direction or dynamics of recalibrational effects) if they exist as reliably developing species-typical adaptations.…”

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Conflicted emotions following trust-based interaction

Schniter

Sheremeta

Shields

2015

Journal of Economic Psychology

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Abstract:We observed reports of conflicted (concurrent positive and negative) emotions activated after interactions in the Trust game. Our analyses reveal that activation of 20 emotional states following trust-based interaction is better explained by predictions derived from a multidimensional Recalibrational perspective than by predictions derived from two-dimensional Valence and Arousal perspectives. The Recalibrational perspective proposes that emotions are activated according to their functional features -for example, emotions help people achieve short or long-sighted goals by up or down-regulating behavioral propensities, whereas Valence and Arousal perspectives consider simpler hedonic dimensions lacking functional specificity. The Recalibrational perspective is also distinguished from the Valence and Arousal perspectives in that it predicts the possibility of conflicted emotions. We discuss the theoretical implications of having conflicted goals and the economic implications of having conflicted emotions.

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“…En cambio, en los otros dos tipos de dilemas (muerte inevitable y autobeneficio) el mayor número de respuestas utilitaristas se corresponde con una mayor dificultad de juicio. Estos resultados podrían explicarse por un sesgo normativo de aversión a la culpa, que comparte mecanismos neuropsicológicos con la activación emocional asociada a los dilemas morales (Chang et al, 2011); las respuestas afirmativas se asociarían en este caso a una mayor carga emocional vinculada al conflicto asociado a la culpa. En ambos resultados la variable "dificultad de juicio" se comporta como un índice discriminativo asociado a la carga emocional de los dilemas.…”

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Adaptación a la población española de un instrumento de juicios morales: la batería de dilemas morales de Moore

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Resumen: Los procesos neuropsicológicos subyacentes al juicio moral son objeto de novedosas investigaciones en el ámbito de la cognición social. El objetivo de este estudio es adaptar a la población española la batería de dilemas morales de Moore. Esta batería plantea una serie de dilemas morales entre una elección utilitarista (asumir una conducta emocionalmente aversiva en favor de un beneficio mayor) y otra no-utilitarista. Participaron 154 estudiantes universitarios que completaron la versión española del instrumento. Investigamos tres tipos de dilemas: morales-personales (el propio sujeto realiza la acción aversiva, incrementando la carga emocional), morales-impersonales (la acción es indirecta, reduciendo la carga emocional), y no-morales. Las variables dependientes fueron: la proporción de respuestas afirmativas -que refleja elecciones utilitaristas, y la dificultad percibida para llevar a cabo el juicio. Los resultados mostraron buenas propiedades psicométricas y validez discriminativa en función del tipo de dilema; los dilemas morales-personales generaron menor número de elecciones utilitaristas y juicios de mayor dificultad. En conclusión, la adaptación española del cuestionario permite medir de manera fiable el juicio moral, discriminando distintos patrones de elección en función de la carga emocional, postulán-dose como un instrumento potencialmente útil en la evaluación de poblaciones con problemas de toma de decisiones sociales y afectivas. Palabras clave: Juicio moral; dilemas morales; emoción; elección utilitarista.Title: Adaptation to Spanish population an instrument of moral judgments: Moore"s battery of moral dilemmas Abstract: The cognitive and emotional neuropsychological processes underlying moral judgments are the focus of groundbreaking research in understanding moral cognition. The aim of this study is to adapt to Spanish the moral dilemmas battery of Moore. This battery presents a set of moral dilemmas from a utilitarian choice (assuming an emotionally aversive behaviour for a higher benefit) and a non-utilitarian choice. The study involved 154 university students who were given the Spanish version of Moore"s battery. We researching three types of dilemmas: moralpersonal (oneself performs the aversive action, increasing the emotional charge), impersonal-moral (the action is carried out indirectly, decreasing the emotional charge) and non-moral. The dependent variables were the proportion of affirmative answers, which reflect utilitarian choices, and the perceived difficulty to produce the judgments. The results showed good psychometric properties and significant differences in the proportion of affirmative answers and the difficulty depending on the type of dilemma, the moral-personal dilemmas generated fewer utilitarian choices and judgments with more difficulty. In conclusion, the Spanish version of Moore's battery allows measuring reliably the moral judgments, discriminating between different patterns of choice depending on the emotional charge, so it is postulated as a potentially u...

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Triangulating the Neural, Psychological, and Economic Bases of Guilt Aversion

Cited by 229 publications

References 72 publications

Brain systems underlying the affective and social monitoring of actions: An integrative review

Brain systems underlying the affective and social monitoring of actions: An integrative review

Conflicted emotions following trust-based interaction

Adaptación a la población española de un instrumento de juicios morales: la batería de dilemas morales de Moore

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