Punishment insensitivity in humans is due to failures in instrumental contingency learning.

ABSTRACT: Punishment maximises the probability of our individual survival by reducing behaviours that cause us harm, and also sustains trust and fairness in groups essential for social cohesion. However, some individuals are more sensitive to punishment than others and these differences in punishment sensitivity have been linked to a variety of decision-making deficits and psychopathologies. The mechanisms for why individuals differ in punishment sensitivity are poorly understood, although recent studies of conditioned punishment in rodents highlight a key role for punishment contingency detection (Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel et al., 2019). Here, we applied a novel 'Planets and Pirates' conditioned punishment task in humans, allowing us to identify the mechanisms for why individuals differ in their sen

SUBMITTER: Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8177883 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature