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Article: Executive control- and reward-related neural processes associated with the opportunity to engage in voluntary dishonest moral decision making
Title | Executive control- and reward-related neural processes associated with the opportunity to engage in voluntary dishonest moral decision making |
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Keywords | Medial frontal negativity Reward prediction error Reward process Moral decision making Executive control |
Issue Date | 2015 |
Citation | Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 2015, v. 15, n. 2, p. 475-491 How to Cite? |
Abstract | © 2015, Psychonomic Society, Inc.Research has begun to examine the neurocognitive processes underlying voluntary moral decision making, which involves engaging in honest or dishonest behavior in a setting in which the individual is free to make his or her own moral decisions. Employing event-related potentials, we measured executive control-related and reward-related neural processes during an incentivized coin-guessing task in which participants had the opportunity to voluntarily engage in dishonest behavior, by overreporting their wins to maximize earnings. We report four primary findings: First, the opportunity to deceive recruited executive control processes involving conflict monitoring and conflict resolution, as evidenced by a higher N2 and a smaller P3. Second, processing the outcome of the coin flips engaged reward-related processes, as evidenced by a larger medial feedback negativity (MFN) for incorrect (loss) than for correct (win) guesses, reflecting a reward prediction error signal. Third, elevated executive control-related neural activity reflecting conflict resolution (i.e., an attenuated executive control P3) predicted a greater likelihood of engaging in overall deceptive behavior. Finally, whereas elevated reward-related neural activity (the reward P3) was associated with a greater likelihood of engaging in overall deceptive behavior, an elevated reward prediction error signal (MFN difference score) predicted increased trial-by-trial moral behavioral adjustment (i.e., a greater likelihood to overreport wins following a previous honest loss than following a previous honest win trial). Collectively, these findings suggest that both executive control- and reward-related neural processes are implicated in moral decision making. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/231000 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.5 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.127 |
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dc.contributor.author | Hu, Xiaoqing | - |
dc.contributor.author | Pornpattananangkul, Narun | - |
dc.contributor.author | Nusslock, Robin | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-09-01T06:07:21Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2016-09-01T06:07:21Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 2015, v. 15, n. 2, p. 475-491 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1530-7026 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/231000 | - |
dc.description.abstract | © 2015, Psychonomic Society, Inc.Research has begun to examine the neurocognitive processes underlying voluntary moral decision making, which involves engaging in honest or dishonest behavior in a setting in which the individual is free to make his or her own moral decisions. Employing event-related potentials, we measured executive control-related and reward-related neural processes during an incentivized coin-guessing task in which participants had the opportunity to voluntarily engage in dishonest behavior, by overreporting their wins to maximize earnings. We report four primary findings: First, the opportunity to deceive recruited executive control processes involving conflict monitoring and conflict resolution, as evidenced by a higher N2 and a smaller P3. Second, processing the outcome of the coin flips engaged reward-related processes, as evidenced by a larger medial feedback negativity (MFN) for incorrect (loss) than for correct (win) guesses, reflecting a reward prediction error signal. Third, elevated executive control-related neural activity reflecting conflict resolution (i.e., an attenuated executive control P3) predicted a greater likelihood of engaging in overall deceptive behavior. Finally, whereas elevated reward-related neural activity (the reward P3) was associated with a greater likelihood of engaging in overall deceptive behavior, an elevated reward prediction error signal (MFN difference score) predicted increased trial-by-trial moral behavioral adjustment (i.e., a greater likelihood to overreport wins following a previous honest loss than following a previous honest win trial). Collectively, these findings suggest that both executive control- and reward-related neural processes are implicated in moral decision making. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience | - |
dc.subject | Medial frontal negativity | - |
dc.subject | Reward prediction error | - |
dc.subject | Reward process | - |
dc.subject | Moral decision making | - |
dc.subject | Executive control | - |
dc.title | Executive control- and reward-related neural processes associated with the opportunity to engage in voluntary dishonest moral decision making | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_OA_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3758/s13415-015-0336-9 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84939990719 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 15 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 475 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 491 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000354641800016 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1530-7026 | - |