Brain Activation Features in Response to the Expectation of Receiving Rewards Through Aggression.

ABSTRACT: Background: Reward expectation is an important motivation for aggression. However, despite substantial progress in behavioral studies related to reward expectation in aggression, the neural basis underlying this process remains unclear. Methods: To investigate the brain correlates of aggressive reward expectation, we developed the Harm-Gain Task (HGT). In this task, participants were informed that they could gain money by causing harm to another person and were instructed to evaluate their satisfaction with the anticipated monetary reward. Additionally, we designed a questionnaire to measure participants' moral disengagement concerning aggressive decision-making in the HGT. Thirty-four healthy Chinese university students completed the HGT while in the scanner, and their funct

SUBMITTER: Wei JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12731093 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature