Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan.
Institute of Neuroscience and Brain Research Center, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Sci Rep. 2021 Jul 21;11(1):14856. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-94372-5.
Coercive power has different effects on individuals, and which were unable to be fully addressed in Milgram's famous studies on obedience to authority. While some individuals exhibited high levels of guilt-related anxiety and refused orders to harm, others followed coercive orders throughout the whole event. The lack of guilt is a well-known characteristic of psychopathy, and recent evidence portrays psychopathic personalities on a continuum of clustered traits, while being pervasive in a significant proportion in the population. To investigate whether psychopathic traits better explain discrepancies in antisocial behavior under coercion, we applied a virtual obedience paradigm, in which an experimenter ordered subjects to press a handheld button to initiate successive actions that carry different moral consequences, during fMRI scanning. Psychopathic traits modulated the association between harming actions and guilt feelings on both behavioral and brain levels. This study sheds light on the individual variability in response to coercive power.
强制力对个体有不同的影响，米尔格拉姆著名的权威服从研究未能充分解决这些影响。虽然一些个体表现出高度的与内疚相关的焦虑，并拒绝伤害的命令，但另一些个体则在整个事件中服从强制命令。缺乏内疚感是精神病态的一个众所周知的特征，最近的证据表明，精神病态人格是一系列聚类特征的连续体，而在人群中很大比例中普遍存在。为了研究精神病态特征是否能更好地解释在强制力下反社会行为的差异，我们应用了虚拟服从范式，在 fMRI 扫描期间，一名实验者命令受试者按下手持按钮，启动带有不同道德后果的连续动作。精神病态特征调节了伤害行为和内疚感之间在行为和大脑层面上的关联。这项研究揭示了个体对强制力的反应的可变性。
