The Neurocomputational Mechanism Underlying Decision-Making on Unfairness to Self and Others.

ABSTRACT: Fairness is a fundamental value in human societies, with individuals concerned about unfairness both to themselves and to others. Nevertheless, an enduring debate focuses on whether self-unfairness and other-unfairness elicit shared or distinct neuropsychological processes. To address this, we combined a three-person ultimatum game with computational modeling and advanced neuroimaging analysis techniques to unravel the behavioral, cognitive, and neural patterns underlying unfairness to self and others. Our behavioral and computational results reveal a heightened concern among participants for self-unfairness over other-unfairness. Moreover, self-unfairness consistently activates brain regions such as the anterior insula, dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex,

SUBMITTER: Luo L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11422400 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature