Prosociality moderates outcome evaluation in competition tasks

The current study investigated the effect of prosociality on outcome evaluation without involving social comparison and reward processing in face-to-face competition tasks. The results showed that when faced with medium and large outcome feedback, the feedback-related negativity (FRN) amplitude indu...

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Published in:Scientific reports 2022-07, Vol.12 (1), p.11397-11397, Article 11397
Main Authors: Lu, Jiachen, Li, Weidong, Xie, Yujia, Huang, Qian, Li, Jingjing
Format: Article
Language:English
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Competition
Dopamine
Feedback
Humanities and Social Sciences
multidisciplinary
Reinforcement
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
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Summary:The current study investigated the effect of prosociality on outcome evaluation without involving social comparison and reward processing in face-to-face competition tasks. The results showed that when faced with medium and large outcome feedback, the feedback-related negativity (FRN) amplitude induced in high-prosocial individuals was significantly more negative than that of low-prosocial individuals. In addition, the P300 amplitude induced in high-prosocial individuals was smaller than that in low-prosocial individuals in the face of large outcome feedback; hence, the prosociality score was significantly correlated with FRN amplitude. However, there was no significant difference in FRN between high-and low-prosocial individuals in the face of small outcome feedback. It was concluded that individual prosocial traits can moderate outcome evaluation.
ISSN:2045-2322
2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-022-15570-3