Tags

Type your tag names separated by a space and hit enter

Lower dorsal striatum activation in association with neuroticism during the acceptance of unfair offers.
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2015 Sep; 15(3):537-52.CA

Abstract

Unfair treatment may evoke more negative emotions in individuals scoring higher on neuroticism, thereby possibly impacting their decision-making in these situations. To investigate the neural basis of social decision-making in these individuals, we examined interpersonal reactions to unfairness in the Ultimatum Game (UG). We measured brain activation with fMRI in 120 participants selected based on their neuroticism score, while they made decisions to accept or reject proposals that were either fair or unfair. The anterior insula and anterior cingulate cortex were more activated during the processing of unfair offers, consistent with prior UG studies. Furthermore, we found more activation in parietal and temporal regions for the two most common decisions (fair accept and unfair reject), involving areas related to perceptual decision-making. Conversely, during the decision to accept unfair offers, individuals recruited more frontal regions previously associated with decision-making and the implementation of reappraisal in the UG. High compared to low neurotic individuals did not show differential activation patterns during the proposal of unfair offers; however, they did show lower activation in the right dorsal striatum (putamen) during the acceptance of unfair offers. This brain region has been involved in the formation of stimulus-action-reward associations and motivation/arousal. In conclusion, the findings suggest that both high and low neurotic individuals recruit brain regions signaling social norm violations in response to unfair offers. However, when it comes to decision-making, it seems that neural circuitry related to reward and motivation is altered in individuals scoring higher on neuroticism, when accepting an unfair offer.

Links

PMC Free PDF

Authors+Show Affiliations

Servaas MN
Neuroimaging Center, Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, PO Box 196, 9700 AD, Groningen, The Netherlands, m.n.servaas@umcg.nl.
Aleman A
No affiliation info available
Marsman JB
No affiliation info available
Renken RJ
No affiliation info available
Riese H
No affiliation info available
Ormel J
No affiliation info available

MeSH

AdolescentAdultAnxiety DisordersBrain MappingCorpus StriatumDecision MakingFemaleGames, ExperimentalHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingNeuroticismPersonality TestsRewardSocial BehaviorSurveys and QuestionnairesYoung Adult

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article

Language

eng

PubMed ID

25720857

Citation

Servaas, Michelle Nadine, et al. "Lower Dorsal Striatum Activation in Association With Neuroticism During the Acceptance of Unfair Offers." Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, vol. 15, no. 3, 2015, pp. 537-52.
Servaas MN, Aleman A, Marsman JB, et al. Lower dorsal striatum activation in association with neuroticism during the acceptance of unfair offers. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2015;15(3):537-52.
Servaas, M. N., Aleman, A., Marsman, J. B., Renken, R. J., Riese, H., & Ormel, J. (2015). Lower dorsal striatum activation in association with neuroticism during the acceptance of unfair offers. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 15(3), 537-52. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-015-0342-y
Servaas MN, et al. Lower Dorsal Striatum Activation in Association With Neuroticism During the Acceptance of Unfair Offers. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2015;15(3):537-52. PubMed PMID: 25720857.
* Article titles in AMA citation format should be in sentence-case
TY - JOUR T1 - Lower dorsal striatum activation in association with neuroticism during the acceptance of unfair offers. AU - Servaas,Michelle Nadine, AU - Aleman,André, AU - Marsman,Jan-Bernard Cornelis, AU - Renken,Remco Jan, AU - Riese,Harriëtte, AU - Ormel,Johan, PY - 2015/2/28/entrez PY - 2015/2/28/pubmed PY - 2016/5/10/medline SP - 537 EP - 52 JF - Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience JO - Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci VL - 15 IS - 3 N2 - Unfair treatment may evoke more negative emotions in individuals scoring higher on neuroticism, thereby possibly impacting their decision-making in these situations. To investigate the neural basis of social decision-making in these individuals, we examined interpersonal reactions to unfairness in the Ultimatum Game (UG). We measured brain activation with fMRI in 120 participants selected based on their neuroticism score, while they made decisions to accept or reject proposals that were either fair or unfair. The anterior insula and anterior cingulate cortex were more activated during the processing of unfair offers, consistent with prior UG studies. Furthermore, we found more activation in parietal and temporal regions for the two most common decisions (fair accept and unfair reject), involving areas related to perceptual decision-making. Conversely, during the decision to accept unfair offers, individuals recruited more frontal regions previously associated with decision-making and the implementation of reappraisal in the UG. High compared to low neurotic individuals did not show differential activation patterns during the proposal of unfair offers; however, they did show lower activation in the right dorsal striatum (putamen) during the acceptance of unfair offers. This brain region has been involved in the formation of stimulus-action-reward associations and motivation/arousal. In conclusion, the findings suggest that both high and low neurotic individuals recruit brain regions signaling social norm violations in response to unfair offers. However, when it comes to decision-making, it seems that neural circuitry related to reward and motivation is altered in individuals scoring higher on neuroticism, when accepting an unfair offer. SN - 1531-135X UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/25720857/Lower_dorsal_striatum_activation_in_association_with_neuroticism_during_the_acceptance_of_unfair_offers_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -