Interoceptive influences on the production of self-serving lies in reputation risk conditions

A longitudinal study of interoception changes in the times of COVID-19: Effects on psychophysiological health and well-being

“…This research can provide insight to promote well-being interventions targeting attention to body signals to improve mental health during the pandemic [ 1 ]. Moreover, considering the role of interoception in social decision-making [ 7 , [45] , [46] , [47] ], and its importance in self-regulation [ 48 ], future research could investigate the role of individual differences in interoception in determining regulatory behaviour during the pandemic, such as adherence to rules or norms associated with reducing the risk of COVID-19 contagion (e.g., social distancing, hygiene, face covering, etc).…”

The impact of mindfulness meditation on social and moral behavior: Does mindfulness enhance other-oriented motivation or decrease monetary reward salience?

“…Moral behavior refers to the ability to perform a course of action in line with moral norms, e.g., by considering its direct or indirect consequences for others (Ayala, 2010). Morality can be assessed distinctly by measuring moral judgments (e.g., by means of moral dilemmas, such as the Trolley and the Footbridge dilemmas (Nichols and Mallon, 2006;Christensen and Gomila, 2012), actual moral behavior (e.g., by means of interactive tasks requiring participants to actively take decisions or perform actions in morally relevant contexts, with real consequences for oneself and others, e.g., the Temptation to Lie Card Game; Panasiti et al, 2011Panasiti et al, , 2014Panasiti et al, , 2016Azevedo et al, 2017;Schepisi et al, 2020;Scattolin et al, 2022;Vabba et al, 2022), or trait morality (e.g., the Moral Identity Questionnaire; Black and Reynolds, 2016).…”

Reputation risk during dishonest social decision-making modulates anterior insular and cingulate cortex activity and connectivity

“…Of note, the loss of reputation is so relevant that people may prefer undergoing very unpleasant experiences, such as physical pain, to avoid it 31 . Tellingly, the risk of being caught while lying, not only decreases the tendency to deceive 26 but it is also related to the need of regulating the activity of the sympathetic nervous system 25 and to cardiac interoception 29 .…”

“…Yet, most of the existing studies missed one or more of the features that make a laboratory paradigm as ecological as possible, namely, i) intention to lie, i.e., when the choice to lie is spontaneous instead of being instructed; ii) social interaction, i.e., when the deception occurs in a social context; and iii) motivation, i.e., when telling a lie entails a benefit or avoidance of a penalty for the liar 22 . To explore the pattern of neural activity during dishonesty in quasi-ecological conditions, we combined fMRI with a new version of a behavioral task, the temptation to lie card game (TLCG), that we developed in previous studies and that proved adept to tap multiple facets of spontaneous social deception [25][26][27][28][29][30] .…”