{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Heffner J"],"funding":["U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences","NIGMS NIH HHS"],"pagination":["1391-1401"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8544818"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["5(10)"],"pubmed_abstract":["People make decisions based on deviations from expected outcomes, known as prediction errors. Past work has focused on reward prediction errors, largely ignoring violations of expected emotional experiences-emotion prediction errors. We leverage a method to measure real-time fluctuations in emotion as people decide to punish or forgive others. Across four studies (N = 1,016), we reveal that emotion and reward prediction errors have distinguishable contributions to choice, such that emotion prediction errors exert the strongest impact during decision-making. We additionally find that a choice to punish or forgive can be decoded in less than a second from an evolving emotional response, suggesting that emotions swiftly influence choice. Finally, individuals reporting significant levels of de"],"journal":["Nature human behaviour"],"pubmed_title":["Emotion prediction errors guide socially adaptive behaviour."],"pmcid":["PMC8544818"],"funding_grant_id":["P20 GM103645","P20GM103645"],"pubmed_authors":["Heffner J","FeldmanHall O","Son JY"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Emotion prediction errors guide socially adaptive behaviour.","description":"People make decisions based on deviations from expected outcomes, known as prediction errors. Past work has focused on reward prediction errors, largely ignoring violations of expected emotional experiences-emotion prediction errors. We leverage a method to measure real-time fluctuations in emotion as people decide to punish or forgive others. Across four studies (N = 1,016), we reveal that emotion and reward prediction errors have distinguishable contributions to choice, such that emotion prediction errors exert the strongest impact during decision-making. We additionally find that a choice to punish or forgive can be decoded in less than a second from an evolving emotional response, suggesting that emotions swiftly influence choice. Finally, individuals reporting significant levels of de","dates":{"release":"2021-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2021 Oct","modification":"2025-05-29T20:02:38.856Z","creation":"2025-04-06T16:23:46.908Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8544818","cross_references":{"pubmed":["34667302"],"doi":["10.1038/s41562-021-01213-6"]}}