scholarly journals Social decision making in autism: On the impact of mirror neurons, motor control, and imitative behaviors

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (8) ◽  
pp. 669-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Radwa Khalil ◽  
Richard Tindle ◽  
Thomas Boraud ◽  
Ahmed A. Moustafa ◽  
Ahmed A. Karim
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Motor Control ◽  
Mirror Neurons ◽  
Social Decision ◽  
Social Decision Making ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Explicit and implicit markers of fairness preeminence in criminal judges

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hernando Santamaría-García ◽  
Jorge Martínez Cotrina ◽  
Nicolas Florez Torres ◽  
Carlos Buitrago ◽  
Diego Mauricio Aponte-Canencio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ultimatum Game ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Physiological Factors ◽  
Social Decision ◽  
Implicit Measurement ◽  
New Research ◽  
Social Decision Making ◽  
The Impact

AbstractAchieving justice could be considered a complex social decision-making scenario. Despite the relevance of social decisions for legal contexts, these processes have still not been explored for individuals who work as criminal judges dispensing justice. To bridge the gap, we used a complex social decision-making task (Ultimatum game) and tracked a heart rate variability measurement: the square root of the mean squared differences of successive NN intervals (RMSSD) at their baseline (as an implicit measurement that tracks emotion regulation behavior) for criminal judges (n = 24) and a control group (n = 27). Our results revealed that, compared to controls, judges were slower and rejected a bigger proportion of unfair offers. Moreover, the rate of rejections and the reaction times were predicted by higher RMSSD scores for the judges. This study provides evidence about the impact of legal background and expertise in complex social decision-making. Our results contribute to understanding how expertise can shape criminal judges’ social behaviors and pave the way for promising new research into the cognitive and physiological factors associated with social decision-making.

scholarly journals The impact of anxiety on social decision-making: Behavioral and electrodermal findings

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tingting Wu ◽  
Yi Luo ◽  
Lucas S. Broster ◽  
Ruolei Gu ◽  
Yue-jia Luo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Decision ◽  
Social Decision Making ◽  
The Impact

Social-economical decision making in current and remitted major depression

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1301-1313 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Pulcu ◽  
E. J. Thomas ◽  
P. D. Trotter ◽  
M. McFarquhar ◽  
G. Juhasz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Ultimatum Game ◽  
Clinical Status ◽  
Charitable Donation ◽  
Social Decision ◽  
Personal Cost ◽  
Depressed Patients ◽  
Full Remission ◽  
Social Decision Making ◽  
The Impact

Background.Prosocial emotions related to self-blame are important in guiding human altruistic decisions. These emotions are elevated in major depressive disorder (MDD), such that MDD has been associated with guilt-driven pathological hyper-altruism. However, the impact of such emotional impairments in MDD on different types of social decision-making is unknown.Method.In order to address this issue, we investigated different kinds of altruistic behaviour (interpersonal cooperation and fund allocation, altruistic punishment and charitable donation) in 33 healthy subjects, 35 patients in full remission (unmedicated) and 24 currently depressed patients (11 on medication) using behavioural-economical paradigms.Results.We show a significant main effect of clinical status on altruistic decisions (p = 0.04) and a significant interaction between clinical status and type of altruistic decisions (p = 0.03). More specifically, symptomatic patients defected significantly more in the Prisoner's Dilemma game (p < 0.05) and made significantly lower charitable donations, whether or not these incurred a personal cost (p < 0.05 and p < 0.01, respectively). Currently depressed patients also reported significantly higher guilt elicited by receiving unfair financial offers in the Ultimatum Game (p < 0.05).Conclusions.Currently depressed individuals were less altruistic in both a charitable donation and an interpersonal cooperation task. Taken together, our results challenge the guilt-driven pathological hyper-altruism hypothesis in depression. There were also differences in both current and remitted patients in the relationship between altruistic behaviour and pathological self-blaming, suggesting an important role for these emotions in moral and social decision-making abnormalities in depression.

scholarly journals The role of oxytocin in delay of gratification and flexibility in non-social decision making

eLife ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgia Eleni Kapetaniou ◽  
Matthias A Reinhard ◽  
Patricia Christian ◽  
Andrea Jobst ◽  
Philippe N Tobler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cognitive Flexibility ◽  
Intertemporal Choice ◽  
Delay Of Gratification ◽  
Experimental Session ◽  
General Function ◽  
Social Decision ◽  
Carry Over ◽  
Social Decision Making ◽  
The Impact

Oxytocin is well-known for its impact on social cognition. This specificity for the social domain, however, has been challenged by findings suggesting a domain-general allostatic function for oxytocin by promoting future-oriented and flexible behavior. In this pre-registered study, we tested the hypothesized domain-general function of oxytocin by assessing the impact of intranasal oxytocin (24 IU) on core aspects of human social (inequity aversion) and non-social decision making (delay of gratification and cognitive flexibility) in 49 healthy volunteers (within-subject design). In intertemporal choice, patience was higher under oxytocin than under placebo, although this difference was evident only when restricting the analysis to the first experimental session (between-group comparison) due to carry-over effects. Further, oxytocin increased cognitive flexibility in reversal learning as well as generosity under conditions of advantageous but not disadvantageous inequity. Our findings show that oxytocin affects both social and non-social decision making, supporting theoretical accounts of domain-general functions of oxytocin.

Less Power or Powerless? Egocentric Empathy Gaps and the Irony of Having Little vs. No Power in Social Decision Making

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Handgraaf ◽  
Eric van Dijk ◽  
Riël C. Vermunt ◽  
Henk Wilke ◽  
Carsten K. W. De Dreu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Decision ◽  
Social Decision Making
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