Deciding for others as a neutral party recruits risk-neutral perspective-taking: Model-based behavioral and fMRI experiments

Scientific Reports
Akitoshi OgawaTatsuya Kameda

Abstract

Risky decision making for others is ubiquitous in our societies. Whereas financial decision making for oneself induces strong concern about the worst outcome (maximin concern) as well as the expected value, behavioral and neural characteristics of decision making for others are less well understood. We conducted behavioral and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiments to examine the neurocognitive underpinnings of risky decisions for an anonymous other, using decisions for self as a benchmark. We show that, although the maximin concern affected both types of decisions equally strongly, decision making for others recruited a more risk-neutral computational mechanism than decision making for self. Specifically, participants exhibited more balanced information search when choosing a risky option for others. Activity of right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ, associated with cognitive perspective taking) was parametrically modulated by options' expected values in decisions for others, and by the minimum amounts in decisions for self. Furthermore, individual differences in self-reported empathic concern modified these attentional and neural processes. Overall, these results indicate that the typical maximin concern is a...Continue Reading

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Nov 5, 2019·Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience·Akitoshi Ogawa, Tatsuya Kameda
Jul 18, 2020·Frontiers in Human Neuroscience·Iiro P JääskeläinenAnna N Shestakova
Dec 30, 2021·International Journal of Psychophysiology : Official Journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology·Lukas NovakPeter Tavel

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