Modulation of the brain activity in outcome evaluation by the presence of an audience: An electrophysiological investigation

Tian, Tengxiang; Xue, Feng; Gu, Ruolei; Broster, Lucas S.; Feng, Chunliang; Wang, Lili; Guan, Qing; Luo, Yuejia

doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2015.04.040

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“…Quantification of the FRN is still a controversial issue. In numerous studies, the FRN was measured by the mean amplitudes within the fixed time windows (e.g., Tian et al, ; Xu et al, , ). However, because the FRN overlaps with the P200 and P300 (e.g., Foti, Weinberg, Dien, & Hajcak, ; Yeung, Holroyd, & Cohen, ), any variance in these two components might be attributed to the FRN, especially when these two components are influenced by the same experimental factors as the FRN.…”

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Paying out one versus paying out all trials and the decrease in behavioral and brain activity in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task

Wang

2019

Psychophysiology

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Both pay out for all the trials (pay-all) and pay out for only one randomly selected trial (pay-one), are widely used in economics experiments to elicit choices from study participants. However, whether pay-all and pay-one payments modulate risk-taking and decision-making in the same manner remains controversial. In the present study, we used event-related potentials (ERPs) with the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) to investigate the effects of the pay-all and pay-one payments on dynamic sequential decision-making behavior under uncertainty and brain activity.Behavioral data showed an increased uncertainty aversion, especially after negative feedback (balloon explosion) during the BART in the pay-all condition, as compared to those in the pay-one condition. The ERP data demonstrated a larger feedbackrelated negativity (FRN) in response to the balloons that exploded during decisionmaking in the pay-all condition, as compared to those in the pay-one condition. In addition, in the pay-all condition, the FRN amplitude elicited by the explosion of the balloon correlated with the future decision-making behavior, although this correlation was not observed in the pay-one condition. In contrast, the P300 component was unresponsive to payment method manipulation. These findings demonstrate the differential effects of the pay-all versus the pay-one payments on decision-making behavior under uncertainty and brain activity, suggesting that the payment method plays an important role in dynamic decision-making studies.

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Paying out one versus paying out all trials and the decrease in behavioral and brain activity in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task

Wang

2019

Psychophysiology

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“…With regard to neural responses, it was hypothesized that FRN and P3 in the offer- and feedback-locked ERPs would be sensitive to fairness and offer source, with increased FRN amplitudes for unfair as compared to fair offers, and increased P3 to human as compared to computer offers4. Moreover, in view of altered coding of feedback valence in the FRN and P3 in the presence of an observer34, social observation was expected to augment fairness coding in FRN and P3. Last, it was hypothesized that higher levels of social anxiety would be associated with more pronounced effects of observation on behavior and ERPs.…”

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Processing of fair and unfair offers in the ultimatum game under social observation

Peterburs

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Liepelt

et al. 2017

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Social context influences social decisions and outcome processing, partially depending on inter-individual differences. The present study investigated social context-dependent modulation of behavior and feedback processing in the ultimatum game (UG) in relation to inter-individual differences in social anxiety. Thirty-two healthy adults completed the UG both under social observation and without observation. Offers were allegedly either randomly generated by the computer or drawn from a pool of offers from previous human players. Overall, fewer unfair than fair offers were accepted. Observation decreased acceptance rates for unfair offers. The feedback-locked feedback-related negativity (FRN) but not the P3 was modulated by observation and fairness, with stronger differential coding of unfair/fair under observation. This effect was strongly correlated with individual levels of social anxiety, with higher levels associated with stronger differential fairness coding in the FRN under observation. Behavioral findings support negative reciprocity in the UG, suggesting that (implicit) social norms overwrite explicit task instructions even in the absence of (alleged) social interaction. Observation enhances this effect. Fairness coding in the FRN was modulated by observation as a function of social anxiety, supporting the notion that altered sensitivity to equality in a social context may contribute to social avoidance in socially anxious individuals.

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Social distance modulates the influence of social observation on pro-environmental behavior: An event-related potential (ERP) study

Zhang

et al. 2023

Biological Psychology

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Modulation of the brain activity in outcome evaluation by the presence of an audience: An electrophysiological investigation

Cited by 10 publications

References 56 publications

Paying out one versus paying out all trials and the decrease in behavioral and brain activity in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task

Paying out one versus paying out all trials and the decrease in behavioral and brain activity in the Balloon Analogue Risk Task

Processing of fair and unfair offers in the ultimatum game under social observation

Social distance modulates the influence of social observation on pro-environmental behavior: An event-related potential (ERP) study

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