Sazhin Daniel, Wyngaarden James B, Dennison Jeff B, Zaff Ori, Fareri Dominic, McCloskey Michael S, Alloy Lauren B, Jarcho Johanna M, Smith David V
Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, USA.
Biol Psychol. 2024 Oct;192:108857. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108857. Epub 2024 Aug 27.
Many decisions happen in social contexts such as negotiations, yet little is understood about how people balance fairness versus selfishness. Past investigations found that activation in brain areas involved in executive function and reward processing was associated with people offering less with no threat of rejection from their partner, compared to offering more when there was a threat of rejection. However, it remains unclear how trait reward sensitivity may modulate activation and connectivity patterns in these situations. To address this gap, we used task-based fMRI to examine the relation between reward sensitivity and the neural correlates of bargaining choices. Participants (N = 54) completed the Sensitivity to Punishment (SP)/Sensitivity to Reward (SR) Questionnaire and the Behavioral Inhibition System/Behavioral Activation System scales. Participants performed the Ultimatum and Dictator Games as proposers and exhibited strategic decisions by being fair when there was a threat of rejection, but being selfish when there was not a threat of rejection. We found that strategic decisions evoked activation in the Inferior Frontal Gyrus (IFG) and the Anterior Insula (AI). Next, we found elevated IFG connectivity with the Temporoparietal junction (TPJ) during strategic decisions. Finally, we explored whether trait reward sensitivity modulated brain responses while making strategic decisions. We found that people who scored lower in reward sensitivity made less strategic choices when they exhibited higher AI-Angular Gyrus connectivity. Taken together, our results demonstrate how trait reward sensitivity modulates neural responses to strategic decisions, potentially underscoring the importance of this factor within social and decision neuroscience.
许多决策发生在谈判等社会情境中,但人们如何平衡公平与自私却鲜为人知。过去的研究发现,与在存在被对方拒绝的威胁时提供更多相比,在没有被对方拒绝的威胁时,参与执行功能和奖励处理的脑区激活与人们提供较少的情况相关。然而,特质奖励敏感性如何在这些情况下调节激活和连接模式仍不清楚。为了填补这一空白,我们使用基于任务的功能磁共振成像来研究奖励敏感性与讨价还价选择的神经关联之间的关系。参与者(N = 54)完成了惩罚敏感性(SP)/奖励敏感性(SR)问卷以及行为抑制系统/行为激活系统量表。参与者作为提议者进行最后通牒博弈和独裁者博弈,并在存在被拒绝的威胁时表现出公平的策略性决策,但在不存在被拒绝的威胁时表现出自私的决策。我们发现,策略性决策会引起额下回(IFG)和前脑岛(AI)的激活。接下来,我们发现在策略性决策过程中,IFG与颞顶联合区(TPJ)的连接增强。最后,我们探讨了特质奖励敏感性在做出策略性决策时是否会调节大脑反应。我们发现,奖励敏感性得分较低的人在表现出较高的AI-角回连接时做出的策略性选择较少。综上所述,我们的结果表明特质奖励敏感性如何调节对策略性决策的神经反应,这可能凸显了该因素在社会和决策神经科学中的重要性。