Executive Mechanisms for Thinking about Negative Situations in Both Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Contexts.

ABSTRACT: Mentalizing is a fundamental aspect of social cognition that includes understanding the mental states of others. This process involves the participation of a well-defined set of brain regions. However, it is still unknown how different contextual situations, such as previous cooperative or non-cooperative interactions, can modulate the brain activity related to the inference of others' mental states. Hence, this study investigated whether a previous social interaction can modulate the neural mechanisms involved in a way to response to inferred mental states of cooperators and non-cooperators in positive vs. negative emotional situations. Participants first engaged in a Dictator game with cooperator and non-cooperator confederates. Then, in an fMRI setup, participants had to infer the menta

SUBMITTER: Reyes-Aguilar A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5442238 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature