Gender Differences in Behavioral and Neural Responses to Unfairness Under Social Pressure

Zheng, Li; Ning, Reipeng; Li, Lin; Wei, Chunli; Cheng, Xuemei; Zhou, Chu; Guo, Xin-Heng

doi:10.1038/s41598-017-13790-6

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“…The increased activation of pgACC was revealed during receiving unfair offers in the social support condition. Similar result has also been found in another study of our group which focused on the impact of social pressure ( Zheng L. et al, 2017 ). The pgACC has been thought to be engaged in person perception and mentalizing ( Amodio and Frith, 2006 ).…”

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Social Support Modulates Neural Responses to Unfairness in the Ultimatum Game

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The current functional MRI study aimed to investigate how responders’ fairness considerations and related decision-making processes were affected by social support in the ultimatum game (UG). During scanning, responders either played the standard UG with proposers (control condition) or played the modified UG in which three unknown observers showed social support for responders by acknowledging proposers’ norm violation. Results revealed that participants reported higher unfairness feelings and rejection rates of unfair offers in the social support condition relative to the control condition. At the neural level, compared to the control condition, perception of social support from others induced greater activations of anterior cingulate gyrus and right anterior insula when receiving unfair (vs. fair) offers. The medial prefrontal cortex and right anterior insula were more active when the unfair offers were rejected (vs. accepted) in the social support condition than the control condition. These results highlighted the modulation effect of social support on responders’ fairness considerations and related decision-making processes.

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Social Support Modulates Neural Responses to Unfairness in the Ultimatum Game

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“…This finding is consistent with Kromer and Bahçekapili (2010), who showed that male participants were more willing to pay money to punish the dictator who had made unfair allocations as an altruistic punishment behavior of the third party. Moreover, this finding is similar to that of Zheng et al (2017), who found that males reject more unfair offers in the high‐ versus low‐pressure context, whereas women accept more unfair offers when facing high social pressure in an ultimatum game. Thus, man and women have different inequity perceptions when individuals behave unfairly, and men may be more likely than women to punish norm‐violating behaviors.…”

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“…The results showed that male participants were more willing to pay money to punish the dictator who made unfair allocations. Another study investigated how social pressure modulated men's and women's responses in an ultimatum game (Zheng et al, 2017). The results showed that men rejected more unfair offers in the high‐ versus low‐pressure context, while women accepted more unfair offers when facing high social pressure.…”

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The effects of participants’ sex and the facial trustworthiness of proposers on third‐party decision‐making in a dictator game

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2020

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This study investigated the effects of participants' sex and the facial trustworthiness of proposers on third-party decision-making. Sixty-three participants participated in this study. The participant's task was to act as an interest-free third party who observed a dictator game in which proposers with either trustworthy or untrustworthy faces made offers to recipients, to evaluate the reasonableness of the offers, and to express their intentions to punish the proposers. The results showed that offers from trustworthy proposers were rated as more reasonable than offers from untrustworthy proposers. Similarly, the participants were more likely to punish untrustworthy proposers than trustworthy proposers. In addition, there was a trend that male participants punished proposers more severely than female participants when proposers made unfair offers. These results demonstrate that an individual's facial trustworthiness affects other people's judgment and decisions.

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“…As such, single-sex studies have more power to detect a given effect. However, it is important to note that previous studies have found gender differences in the UG 55 , 56 . While the psilocybin response does not appear to be moderated by gender 57 , gender differences in the subjective effects of MDMA have been reported 58 .…”

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Psilocybin and MDMA reduce costly punishment in the Ultimatum Game

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Disruptions in social decision-making are becoming evident in many psychiatric conditions. These are studied using paradigms investigating the psychological mechanisms underlying interpersonal interactions, such as the Ultimatum Game (UG). Rejection behaviour in the UG represents altruistic punishment – the costly punishment of norm violators – but the mechanisms underlying it require clarification. To investigate the psychopharmacology of UG behaviour, we carried out two studies with healthy participants, employing serotonergic agonists: psilocybin (open-label, within-participant design, N = 19) and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA; placebo-controlled, double-blind, crossover design, N = 20). We found that both MDMA and psilocybin reduced rejection of unfair offers (odds ratio: 0.57 and 0.42, respectively). The reduction in rejection rate following MDMA was associated with increased prosociality (R2 = 0.26, p = 0.025). In the MDMA study, we investigated third-party decision-making and proposer behaviour. MDMA did not reduce rejection in the third-party condition, but produced an increase in the amount offered to others (Cohen’s d = 0.82). We argue that these compounds altered participants’ conceptualisation of ‘social reward’, placing more emphasis on the direct relationship with interacting partners. With these compounds showing efficacy in drug-assisted psychotherapy, these studies are an important step in the further characterisation of their psychological effects.

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Gender Differences in Behavioral and Neural Responses to Unfairness Under Social Pressure

Cited by 10 publications

References 70 publications

Social Support Modulates Neural Responses to Unfairness in the Ultimatum Game

Social Support Modulates Neural Responses to Unfairness in the Ultimatum Game

The effects of participants’ sex and the facial trustworthiness of proposers on third‐party decision‐making in a dictator game

Psilocybin and MDMA reduce costly punishment in the Ultimatum Game

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