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Zhao S, Cao R, Lin C, Wang S, Yu H. Differences in the link between social trait judgment and socio-emotional experience in neurotypical and autistic individuals. Sci Rep 2024; 14:5400. [PMID: 38443486 PMCID: PMC10915137 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-56005-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2023] [Accepted: 02/29/2024] [Indexed: 03/07/2024] Open
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Neurotypical (NT) individuals and individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) make different judgments of social traits from others' faces; they also exhibit different social emotional responses in social interactions. A common hypothesis is that the differences in face perception in ASD compared with NT is related to distinct social behaviors. To test this hypothesis, we combined a face trait judgment task with a novel interpersonal transgression task that induces measures social emotions and behaviors. ASD and neurotypical participants viewed a large set of naturalistic facial stimuli while judging them on a comprehensive set of social traits (e.g., warm, charismatic, critical). They also completed an interpersonal transgression task where their responsibility in causing an unpleasant outcome to a social partner was manipulated. The purpose of the latter task was to measure participants' emotional (e.g., guilt) and behavioral (e.g., compensation) responses to interpersonal transgression. We found that, compared with neurotypical participants, ASD participants' self-reported guilt and compensation tendency was less sensitive to our responsibility manipulation. Importantly, ASD participants and neurotypical participants showed distinct associations between self-reported guilt and judgments of criticalness from others' faces. These findings reveal a novel link between perception of social traits and social emotional responses in ASD.
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Affiliation(s)
- Shangcheng Zhao
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, 92093, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA.
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Shen B, Chen Y, He Z, Li W, Yu H, Zhou X. The competition dynamics of approach and avoidance motivations following interpersonal transgression. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2302484120. [PMID: 37769254 PMCID: PMC10556639 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2302484120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2023] [Accepted: 07/26/2023] [Indexed: 09/30/2023] Open
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Two behavioral motivations coexist in transgressors following an interpersonal transgression-approaching and compensating the victim and avoiding the victim. Little is known about how these motivations arise, compete, and drive transgressors' decisions. The present study adopted a social interaction task to manipulate participants' (i.e., the transgressor) responsibility for another's (i.e., the victim) monetary loss and measure the participants' tradeoff between compensating the victim and avoiding face-to-face interactions with the victim. Following each transgression, participants used a computer mouse to choose between two options differing in the amount of compensation to the victim and the probability of face-to-face contact with the victim. Results showed that as participants' responsibility increased, 1) the decision weights on contact avoidance relative to compensation increased, and 2) the onset of the contact-avoidance attribute was expedited and that of the compensation attribute was delayed. These results demonstrate how competing social motivations following transgression evolve and determine social decision-making and shed light on how social-affective state modulates the dynamics of decision-making in general.
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Affiliation(s)
- Bo Shen
- School of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua321004, China
- Neuroscience Institute, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY10016
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- Graduate Program in Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA24061
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- Division of Biosciences, University College London, LondonWC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua321004, China
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA93106
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Psychological Crisis Intervention, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai200062, China
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Li S, Cheng S, Shangguan C, Su X, Li X. Forgive or complain: Interpersonal distance modulates reactive attitudes and neural responses toward wrongdoers. Biol Psychol 2023; 183:108653. [PMID: 37536652 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2023] [Revised: 07/23/2023] [Accepted: 07/31/2023] [Indexed: 08/05/2023]
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While the effect of interpersonal distance on forgiveness has been investigated over the past few years, it remains unclear whether this facilitating effect holds even when measured implicitly. Meanwhile, though cognitive control and the corresponding prefrontal cortex play a prominent role in forgiveness processing, the neural mechanism underlying forgiveness toward varied wrongdoers is largely unexplored. Here, forty-two participants initially underwent noise offense either from their friend or stranger, followed by a word identification test to examine their implicit attitude, during which they were presented with word-name combinations and required to categorize forgive- or complain-label words while ignoring the names of their friends or strangers below. A shorter reaction time reflects more congruence with one's implicit attitude. Electroencephalogram was recorded during the word identification test. Behaviorally, while individuals reacted faster to forgive-friend relative to complain-friend pairings, no such reaction bias was found for the stranger-wrongdoer, which suggests that individuals were more inclined to forgive someone close. Regarding the EEG/ERP results, forgive-friend elicited lower alpha oscillation and more negative frontal alpha asymmetry (FAA) value than complain-friend combinations, suggesting increased and dominant activity in the right prefrontal network during forgiveness toward friends. Whereas complain- relative to forgive-stranger combinations elicited larger P3 amplitudes, suggesting a neural encoding bias to information associated with complaints about stranger-wrongdoer. These multimodal findings provide evidence for the benefits of closeness in forgiveness and shed light on the neural mechanisms underlying forgiveness toward different types of wrongdoers.
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- Sijin Li
- School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
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- College of Education Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
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- College of Education, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China
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- College of Education, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China.
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Xiao F, Zhao J, Fan L, Ji X, Fang S, Zhang P, Kong X, Liu Q, Yu H, Zhou X, Gao X, Wang X. Understanding guilt-related interpersonal dysfunction in obsessive-compulsive personality disorder through computational modeling of two social interaction tasks. Psychol Med 2023; 53:5569-5581. [PMID: 36066201 DOI: 10.1017/s003329172200277x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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BACKGROUND Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) is a high-prevalence personality disorder characterized by subtle but stable interpersonal dysfunction. There have been only limited studies addressing the behavioral patterns and cognitive features of OCPD in interpersonal contexts. The purpose of this study was to investigate how behaviors differ between OCPD individuals and healthy controls (HCs) in the context of guilt-related interpersonal responses. METHOD A total of 113 participants were recruited, including 46 who were identified as having OCPD and 67 HCs. Guilt-related interpersonal responses were manipulated and measured with two social interactive tasks: the Guilt Aversion Task, to assess how anticipatory guilt motivates cooperation; and the Guilt Compensation Task, to assess how experienced guilt induces compensation behaviors. The guilt aversion model and Fehr-Schmidt inequity aversion model were adopted to analyze decision-making in the Guilt Aversion Task and the Guilt Compensation Task, respectively. RESULTS Computational model-based results demonstrated that, compared with HCs, the OCPD group exhibited less guilt aversion when making cooperative decisions as well as less guilt-induced compensation after harming others. CONCLUSION Our findings indicate that individuals with OCPD tend to be less affected by guilt than HCs. These impairments in guilt-related responses may prevent adjustments in behaviors toward compliance with social norms and thus result in interpersonal dysfunctions.
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- Fan Xiao
- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, China
- China National Clinical Research Center on Mental Disorders (Xiangya), Changsha, Hunan 410011, China
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- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, China
- China National Clinical Research Center on Mental Disorders (Xiangya), Changsha, Hunan 410011, China
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- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, China
- China National Clinical Research Center on Mental Disorders (Xiangya), Changsha, Hunan 410011, China
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- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, China
- China National Clinical Research Center on Mental Disorders (Xiangya), Changsha, Hunan 410011, China
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- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, China
- China National Clinical Research Center on Mental Disorders (Xiangya), Changsha, Hunan 410011, China
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- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, China
- China National Clinical Research Center on Mental Disorders (Xiangya), Changsha, Hunan 410011, China
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- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, China
- China National Clinical Research Center on Mental Disorders (Xiangya), Changsha, Hunan 410011, China
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- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, China
- China National Clinical Research Center on Mental Disorders (Xiangya), Changsha, Hunan 410011, China
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9660, USA
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Psychological Crisis Intervention, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
- PKU-IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Psychological Crisis Intervention, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
- School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Medical Psychological Center, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, China
- China National Clinical Research Center on Mental Disorders (Xiangya), Changsha, Hunan 410011, China
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