From gratitude to injustice: Neurocomputational mechanisms of gratitude-induced injustice

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dc.contributor.authorZhu, Ruidaen
dc.contributor.authorXu, Zhenhuaen
dc.contributor.authorSu, Songen
dc.contributor.authorFeng, Chunliangen
dc.contributor.authorLuo, Yien
dc.contributor.authorTang, Honghongen
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Shenen
dc.contributor.authorWu, Xiaoyanen
dc.contributor.authorMai, Xiaoqinen
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Chaoen
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-06T12:51:16Zen
dc.date.available2022-09-06T12:51:16Zen
dc.date.issued2021-12-15en
dc.description.abstractGratitude shapes individuals' behaviours and impacts the harmony of society. Many previous studies focused on its association with prosocial behaviours. A possibility that gratitude can lead to moral violation has been overlooked until recently. Nevertheless, the neurocognitive mechanisms of gratitude-induced moral violation are still unclear. On the other hand, though neural correlates of the gratitude's formation have been examined, the neural underpinnings of gratitude-induced behaviour remain unknown. For addressing these two overlapped research gaps, we developed novel tasks to investigate how participants who had received voluntary (Gratitude group) or involuntary help (Control group) punished their benefactors' unfairness with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The Gratitude group punished their benefactors less than the Control group. The self-report and computational modelling results demonstrated a crucial role of the boosted protection tendency on behalf of benefactors in the gratitude-induced injustice. The fMRI results showed that activities in the regions associated with mentalizing (temporoparietal junction) and reward processing (ventral medial prefrontal cortex) differed between the groups and were related to the gratitude-induced injustice. They suggest that grateful individuals concern for benefactors' benefits, value chances to interact with benefactors, and refrain from action that perturbs relationship-building (i.e., exert less punishment on benefactors' unfairness), which reveal a dark side of gratitude and enrich the gratitude theory (i.e., the find-bind-remind theory). Our findings provide psychological, computational, and neural accounts of the gratitude-induced behaviour and further the understanding of the nature of gratitude.en
dc.description.notesWe thanked Jiahua Xu for providing useful advice. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (32130045 , 31871094) , the Major Project of National Social Science Foundation (19ZDA363) , the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission (Z151100003915122) , the National Program for Support of Top-notch Young Professionals, and the International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program (No. 2020002) .en
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [32130045, 31871094]; Major Project of National Social Science Foundation [19ZDA363]; Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission [Z151100003915122]; National Program for Support of Top-notch Young Professionals; International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program [2020002]en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118730en
dc.identifier.eissn1095-9572en
dc.identifier.issn1053-8119en
dc.identifier.other118730en
dc.identifier.pmid34788663en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/111711en
dc.identifier.volume245en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAcademic Press-Elsevieren
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectGratitudeen
dc.subjectProtection tendencyen
dc.subjectInjusticeen
dc.subjectMentalizingen
dc.subjectReward processingen
dc.titleFrom gratitude to injustice: Neurocomputational mechanisms of gratitude-induced injusticeen
dc.title.serialNeuroimageen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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