Neurocomputational evidence that conflicting prosocial motives guide distributive justice.

ABSTRACT: In the history of humanity, most conflicts within and between societies have originated from perceived inequality in resource distribution. How humans achieve and maintain distributive justice has therefore been an intensely studied issue. However, most research on the corresponding psychological processes has focused on inequality aversion and has been largely agnostic of other motives that may either align or oppose this behavioral tendency. Here we provide behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging evidence that distribution decisions are guided by three distinct motives-inequality aversion, harm aversion, and rank reversal aversion-that interact with each other and can also deter individuals from pursuing equality. At the neural level, we show that these three motives are encoded by s

SUBMITTER: Li Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9897457 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature