scholarly journals Neural Modulation of Social Distance on Third-Party Punishment

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Qu ◽  
Zixuan Tang ◽  
Huijun Zhang ◽  
Yang Hu ◽  
Jean Claude Dreher

AbstractAs a crucial mechanism to enforce social norms, people as third parties tend to punish the norm violators even it costs their own pay-off. However, people do not usually treat everyone equally, e.g., it is shown that people are nice to close others. Here, we investigated how third party punishment (TPP) and its neural correlates is modulated by social distance (SD) by using fMRI. Behaviorally, participants punished more when the unfair perpetrator was more distant to them. Such SD-modulation effect was stronger when the punishment was free. Model-based results showed that SD-dependent computational signals were encoded in right dlPFC. More interestingly, SD modulated the relationship between punishment levels and neural activities in default network including vmPFC and bilateral hippocampus. The explorative functional connectivity analysis further showed that the vmPFC increased the association with left dlPFC when participants punished close others. Finally, punishment type (costly vs. free) also modulated the relationship between punishment levels and neural correlates in dACC and the ventral striatum. Taken together, our results revealed the neurocomputational underpinnings of how SD plays an important role in affecting TPP.

2020 ◽  
pp. 030573562096826
Author(s):  
Ying Liu ◽  
Qingting Tang ◽  
Xingcong Zhao ◽  
Huan Lu ◽  
Guangjie Yuan ◽  
...  

Music style is tightly connected with listeners’ emotional processes and neural activities. However, it remains unclear how the brain works when different music styles are processed emotionally. The current study analyzed the neural activation associated with five music styles during emotion-evoking. Twenty non-musicians participated in the functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning and the emotional ratings of pleasure and arousal evoked by pop, rock, jazz, folk, and classical music. Results showed that classical music was associated with the highest pleasure rating and deactivation of the corpus callosum. Rock music was associated with the highest arousal rating and deactivation of the cingulate gyrus. Pop music activated the bilateral supplementary motor areas (SMA) and the superior temporal gyrus (STG) with moderate pleasure and arousal. As the first fMRI experiment investigating the relationship between the music style and emotion, it provides neural correlates of different music styles during emotion-evoking.


2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 306-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle Mantovani ◽  
José Carlos Korelo ◽  
Jenny Ibarra

Purpose Brand transgressions, characterized by service failure, are a frequent theme for marketing scholars. Their impact on satisfaction, trust and brand loyalty is of high interest. However, in assessing the influence of those events on third-party consumers, the literature is still lacking. The purpose of this paper is to explore how social distance explains the reactions of close and distant third-party consumers toward other consumers during a brand transgression event. Anger is analyzed as a driver of this process. Design/methodology/approach Two experiments were conducted. Both studies presented a 3 (social distance: victim vs close third party vs distant third party) by 2 (severity: low vs high) between-subjects design. Respondents were asked to read a transgression scenario in a mobile phone service (study 1) and in a restaurant (study 2) and then completed scales that measured their affective reactions and evaluations of the relationship – satisfaction, trust, and loyalty intention – with the transgressing brand. Findings The results showed that transgression severity intensifies the effect of the brand transgression on consumer’s anger. Victims and close third parties demonstrated higher levels of anger compared to distant third-party consumers. In the case of severe transgressions, an experience of anger contagion between victims and close third-party consumers was responsible for the negative effect on the relationship evaluation of the transgressing brand compared to distant third-party consumers. Originality/value This study extends previous research about how social distance influences consumer-brand relationships and demonstrates the mediating role played by affective anger contagion.


2021 ◽  
pp. 193896552110123
Author(s):  
Taeshik Gong ◽  
Pengchang Sun ◽  
Min Jung Kang

To date, research on the deontic model and third-party reactions to injustice has focused primarily on individuals’ tendency to punish the transgressor. In this study, we seek to extend the extant research by arguing that punishment may not be the only deontic reaction and that third-party observers of injustice should engage in activities that help the victim. More specifically, we explore employee’s customer-oriented constructive deviance as a reaction to organizational injustice toward customers. We also investigate how this deviance influences customer satisfaction. In addition, we explore service climate, driven by servant leadership as a moderator on the relationship between employees’ perceptions of organizational unfairness and customer-oriented constructive deviance. The study collected three-level survey data from 95 hotel managers, 396 employees, and 1,848 customers. We find that servant leadership increases service climate, which in turn strengthens the relationship between organizational injustice toward customers and customer-oriented constructive deviance. The findings also reveal that customer-oriented constructive deviance increases perceived service quality, leading to customer satisfaction. Our study significantly contributes to the emerging theory concerning customer-oriented constructive deviance by explaining the antecedents, consequences, and moderators. The study also helps managers deal with customer-oriented constructive deviance in the workplace.


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-488
Author(s):  
Thomas M.J. Möllers

AbstractThe Europeanisation of domestic law calls for a classical methodology to ‘update’ the established traditions of the law. The relationship between European directives and national law is difficult, since directives do apply, but European legal texts need to be implemented into national law. Whilst directives are not binding on private individuals, there is no direct third-party effect, but only an ‘indirect effect’. This effect is influenced by the stipulations of the ECJ, but is ultimately determined in accordance with methodical principles of national law. The ECJ uses a broad term of interpretation of the law. In contrast, in German and Austrian legal methodology the wording of a provision defines the dividing line between interpretation and further development of the law. The article reveals how legal scholars and the case-law have gradually shown in recent decades a greater willingness to shift from a narrow, traditional boundary of permissible development of the law to a modern line of case-law regarding the boundary of directive-compliant, permissible development of the law.


Author(s):  
Simin Zou ◽  
Xuhui He

The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has caused a traffic tie-up across the world. In addition to home quarantine orders and travel bans, the social distance guideline of about six feet was enacted to reduce the risk of contagion. However, with recent life gradually returning to normal, the crisis is not over. In this research, a moving train test and a Gaussian puff model were employed to investigate the impact of wind raised by a train running on the transmission and dispersion of SARS-CoV-2 from infected individuals. Our findings suggest that the 2 m social distance guideline may not be enough; under train-induced wind action, human respiratory disease-carrier droplets may travel to unexpected places. However, there are deficiencies in passenger safety guidelines and it is necessary to improve the quantitative research in the relationship between train-induced wind and virus transmission. All these findings could provide a fresh insight to contain the spread of COVID-19 and provide a basis for preventing and controlling the pandemic virus, and probe into strategies for control of the disease in the future.


2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 659-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hye Eun Lee ◽  
Hee Sun Park ◽  
Tai Sik Lee ◽  
Dong Wook Lee

Relationships among subordinates' feedback-seeking strategy preferences, Leader-Member Exchange (LMX), social cost, and source credibility were examined. Employees (N = 134) of civil engineering companies in South Korea completed a questionnaire. Findings showed that LMX quality, social cost, and source credibility either independently or jointly influenced subordinates' feedback-seeking strategy preferences. LMX was positively related to preference for using direct strategies, but not significantly related to preferences for using indirect strategies and for using third-party strategies. As moderators, increases in social cost and source credibility were associated with changes in the relationship between LMX and preference for third-party strategies. More detailed explanations and implications of these findings are discussed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 686-694
Author(s):  
Rasmi Naibaho ◽  
Azhar Maksum ◽  
Rujiman .

The purpose of this study was to determine and analyze the factors affecting financial performance of BUKU 3 banks with growth of third party funds as moderating variable. This study uses a causality research design. The population in this study is the Banking Service Industry Company which is all Banking Companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange which consists of 46 Banks. The year of observation is 2010-2020. 12 Banking Companies that have met the requirements with 11 years of research in order to obtain 132 observations. In this research, the technical analysis used is panel data regression analysis technique. The results showed that capital adequacy ratio has no effect on financial performance. Operating expense to operating income has a negative effect on financial performance. Net interest margin has a positive effect on financial performance. Non performing loan has no effect on financial performance. Loan to funding ratio has no effect on financial performance. Minimum statutory reserve has no effect on financial performance. Female board of directors has no effect on financial performance. Third party funds cannot moderate the relationship between capital adequacy ratio and financial performance. Third party funds can moderate the relationship between operating expense to operating income on financial performance. Third party funds cannot moderate the relationship between net interest margin and financial performance. Third party funds cannot moderate the relationship between non performing loan and financial performance. Third party funds cannot moderate the relationship between loan to funding ratio and financial performance. Third party funds cannot moderate the relationship between minimum statutory reserve and financial performance. Third party funds can moderate the relationship between female board of directors and financial performance. Keywords: Financial Performance, Growth, Funds.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-78
Author(s):  
Lindsay Bartkowski

Scholarly and journalistic investigations of content moderation have thoroughly documented its emotional impact on workers, but have yet to analyze moderation as care labor. Out of sight from U.S. and European consumers, content moderators are hired by third-party outsourcing firms primarily in the Philippines or India to remove offensive or violent content from internet platforms in order to preserve their profitability and users’ emotional well-being. Situating content moderation in the long history of domestic labor relations in the U.S., which were designed to support the expansion of imperial power, this essay proposes new ways of understanding the relationship between affective labor and the procedures of empire.


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