When emotional responses conflict with self-interested impulses: A transcranial direct current stimulation study of cognitive control in cooperative norm compliance

IF 2.5 2区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Economic Psychology Pub Date : 2023-09-02 DOI:10.1016/j.joep.2023.102675

Xile Yin , Jianbiao Li , Dahui Li , Siyu Chen

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Abstract

This study proposes a conflict between the impulse to express negative emotions and the temptation to behave selfishly in the cognitive control processes of complying with cooperative norms. We conduct an experiment with two tasks (cost and no-cost) in a prisoner’s dilemma game with third-party punishment and apply the transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to modulate the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). The results indicate significant differences in tDCS effects on third-party punishment between two cost conditions. In the no-cost task, third parties in the cathodal condition report higher negative emotional responses and assign more punishment to norm violators than those in the sham condition. However, the tDCS effect on third-party punishment is not significant in the cost task. Our results help address the inconsistent findings in prior literature regarding the role of the right DLPFC in norm compliance and deepen our understanding of the cognitive control process in enforcing cooperative norms by third parties.

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当情绪反应与自利冲动冲突时:经颅直流电刺激对合作规范依从性认知控制的研究

本研究提出在服从合作规范的认知控制过程中，表达负面情绪的冲动与表现自私行为的诱惑之间存在冲突。在第三方惩罚的囚徒困境博弈中，采用有成本和无成本两种任务，采用经颅直流电刺激(tDCS)调节右背外侧前额叶皮层(DLPFC)。结果表明，在两种成本条件下，tDCS对第三方惩罚的影响存在显著差异。在无成本任务中，消极条件下的第三方比虚假条件下的第三方表现出更高的消极情绪反应，并对违反规范的人施加更多的惩罚。然而，在成本任务中，tDCS对第三方惩罚的影响并不显著。我们的研究结果有助于解决先前文献中关于右侧DLPFC在规范遵守中的作用的不一致的发现，并加深我们对第三方强制执行合作规范的认知控制过程的理解。

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Journal of Economic Psychology Multiple-

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5.20

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63 days

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