Proposers' Economic Status Affects Behavioral and Neural Responses to Unfairness

Economic status played an important role in the modulation of economic decision making. The present fMRI study aimed at investigating how economic status modulated behavioral and neural responses to unfairness in a modified Ultimatum Game (UG). During scanning, participants played as responders in t...

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Veröffentlicht in:Frontiers in psychology 2017-05, Vol.8, p.847-847
Hauptverfasser: Zheng, Yijie, Cheng, Xuemei, Xu, Jialin, Zheng, Li, Li, Lin, Yang, Guang, Guo, Xiuyan
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Zusammenfassung:Economic status played an important role in the modulation of economic decision making. The present fMRI study aimed at investigating how economic status modulated behavioral and neural responses to unfairness in a modified Ultimatum Game (UG). During scanning, participants played as responders in the UG, and they were informed of the economic status of proposers before receiving offers. At the behavioral level, higher rejection rates and lower fairness ratings were revealed when proposers were in high economic status than in low economic status. Besides, the most time-consuming decisions tended to occur at lower unfairness level when the proposers were in high (relative to low) economic status. At the neural level, stronger activation of left thalamus was revealed when fair offers were proposed by proposers in high rather than in low economic status. Greater activation of right medial prefrontal cortex was revealed during acceptance to unfair offers in high economic status condition rather than in low economic status condition. Taken together, these findings shed light on the significance of proposers' economic status in responders' social decision making in UG.
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00847