Research Center of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, PR China; Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Dalian, Liaoning Province, China.
Research Center of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, PR China; Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Neuroscience, Dalian, Liaoning Province, China.
Int J Psychophysiol. 2024 Oct;204:112424. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112424. Epub 2024 Aug 22.
Economic decision-making plays a paramount role in both individual and national interests. Individuals have fairness preferences in economic decision-making, but a proposer's moral-related information may affect fairness considerations. In prior ERP studies, researchers have suggested moral identity influences fairness preferences in the Ultimatum Game (UG), but there are discrepancies in the results. Furthermore, whether role models (individuals whom someone else looks to help decide suitable behaviors), who can modulate people's moral standards, can affect fairness concerns in UG is still understudied. To address the questions, we selected the moral-related statements by eliminating those with illegal information and employed the ERP technique to explore whether the interplay of the proposer's role model and moral-related behavior influenced fairness processing in the modified UG and the corresponding neural mechanisms. We mainly found that the aforementioned interaction effect on proposal considerations in UG could be mirrored in both rejection rates and P300 variations. The results demonstrate that the interaction between the proposer's role model and moral behavior can modulate fairness concerns in UG. Our current work provides new avenues for elucidating the time course of the influencing mechanism of fair distributions in complicated social environments.
经济决策在个人和国家利益中都起着至关重要的作用。个人在经济决策中有公平偏好,但提议者的道德相关信息可能会影响公平考虑。在之前的 ERP 研究中,研究人员提出道德认同会影响最后通牒博弈(UG)中的公平偏好,但结果存在差异。此外,角色模型(其他人寻求帮助决定合适行为的人),即可以调节人们道德标准的人,是否会影响 UG 中的公平问题,这方面的研究还很少。为了解决这些问题,我们通过剔除包含非法信息的道德相关陈述,选择了道德相关陈述,并采用 ERP 技术来探讨提议者的角色模型和道德相关行为之间的相互作用是否会影响修改后的 UG 中的公平处理以及相应的神经机制。我们主要发现,UG 中提议者的角色模型和道德行为之间的上述相互作用可以反映在拒绝率和 P300 变化上。结果表明,提议者的角色模型和道德行为之间的相互作用可以调节 UG 中的公平关注。我们的当前工作为阐明复杂社会环境中公平分配影响机制的时间进程提供了新途径。