How Do Acquired Political Identities Influence Our Neural Processing toward Others within the Context of a Trust Game?

ABSTRACT: Trust is essential for mutually beneficial human interactions in economic exchange and politics and people's social identities notably have dramatic effects on trust behaviors toward others. Previous literature concerning social identities generally suggests that people tend to show in-group favoritism toward members who share the same identity. However, how our brains process signals of identity while facing uncertain situations in interpersonal interactions remains largely unclear. To address this issue, we performed an fMRI experiment with 54 healthy adults who belonged to two identity groups of opposing political orientations. The identity information of participants was extracted from a large-scale social survey on the 2012 Taiwan presidential election. Accordingly, participants were

SUBMITTER: Wu CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5801296 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature