Your Performance Is My Concern: A Perspective-Taking Competition Task Affects ERPs to Opponent's Outcomes.

ABSTRACT: Previous research has shown that people have more empathic responses to in-group members and more schadenfreude to out-group members. As a dimension of cognitive empathy, perspective-taking has been considered to be related to the enhancement of empathy. We tried to combine these effects through manipulation of a competitive task with opponents and an in-group partner and investigated the potential effect of in-group bias or the perspective-taking effect on outcome evaluation. We hypothesized that the neural activities would provide evidence of in-group bias. We tested it with a simple gambling observation task and recorded subjects' electroencephalographic (EEG) signals. Our results showed that the opponent's loss evoked larger feedback-related negativity (FRN) and smaller P300 activity t

SUBMITTER: Yu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6829177 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature