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To Blame or Not? Modulating Third-Party Punishment with the Framing Effect / 神经科学通报·英文版
Neuroscience Bulletin ; (6): 533-547, 2022.
Article in English | WPRIM | ID: wpr-929102
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People as third-party observers, without direct self-interest, may punish norm violators to maintain social norms. However, third-party judgment and the follow-up punishment might be susceptible to the way we frame (i.e., verbally describe) a norm violation. We conducted a behavioral and a neuroimaging experiment to investigate the above phenomenon, which we call the "third-party framing effect". In these experiments, participants observed an anonymous perpetrator deciding whether to keep her/his economic benefit while exposing a victim to a risk of physical pain (described as "harming others" in one condition and "not helping others" in the other condition), then they had a chance to punish that perpetrator at their own cost. Our results showed that the participants were more willing to execute third-party punishment under the harm frame compared to the help frame, manifesting a framing effect. Self-reported anger toward perpetrators mediated the relationship between empathy toward victims and the framing effect. Meanwhile, activation of the insula mediated the relationship between mid-cingulate cortex activation and the framing effect; the functional connectivity between these regions significantly predicted the size of the framing effect. These findings shed light on the psychological and neural mechanisms of the third-party framing effect.
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Full text: Available Index: WPRIM (Western Pacific) Main subject: Pain / Punishment / Empathy / Neuroimaging / Gyrus Cinguli Type of study: Prognostic study Limits: Female / Humans Language: English Journal: Neuroscience Bulletin Year: 2022 Type: Article

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Full text: Available Index: WPRIM (Western Pacific) Main subject: Pain / Punishment / Empathy / Neuroimaging / Gyrus Cinguli Type of study: Prognostic study Limits: Female / Humans Language: English Journal: Neuroscience Bulletin Year: 2022 Type: Article