In:
Psychophysiology, Wiley, Vol. 57, No. 9 ( 2020-09)
Abstract:
Psychological studies showed that people were hyperaltruistic during moral decision‐making rather than profoundly selfish as economists described them. However, little is known about the underlying neural mechanism of this hyperaltruistic behaviors. This study adopted ERPs to demonstrate that participants were more willing to forego their self‐interests to reduce painful harm to strangers compared to themselves and friends, stemming from stronger harmful aversive experiences (larger P260) and moral conflicts (larger LPP) toward strangers. Moreover, such effect was weakened along with increased conflict intensity of trade‐off decisions. Our findings provided the neural temporal course basis of such hyperaltruistic tendency during the interpersonal moral decision‐making.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0048-5772
,
1469-8986
Language:
English
Publisher:
Wiley
Publication Date:
2020
detail.hit.zdb_id:
1484299-3
SSG:
5,2