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Age-related neural correlates of facial trustworthiness detection during economic interaction
- Source :
- Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, American Psychological Association, 2020, 13 (1), pp.19-33. ⟨10.1037/npe0000112⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2020.
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Abstract
- National audience; Some economic transactions require people to trust strangers, whose trustworthiness is unknown. In these circumstances, behavioral studies have shown that adults (but not young adolescents) seem to have some minimal ability to detect the trustworthiness of adult strangers based on their facial features. In this study, we explored the neural correlates of this facial trustworthiness detection. A group of adolescents and adults played a series of economic Trust Games with adult trustees of which we had previously recorded the strategy. Results showed that when adult investors were looking at the picture of a trust-abusing trustee, the left amygdala was relatively more activated than when they were looking at a trust-honoring player. Younger adolescents did not show this pattern and responded with a more pronounced deactivation when facing a trust-abusing trustee. An exploratory whole-brain analysis detected a similar age shift for mentalizing regions of the brain. Our results fit with an emerging model suggesting that the amygdala is implicated in an associative learning process that progressively refines a mapping of faces onto trustworthy behavior and may result in avoiding to be exploited by untrustworthy strangers.
- Subjects :
- Cognitive Neuroscience
Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
050109 social psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Amygdala
GeneralLiterature_MISCELLANEOUS
050105 experimental psychology
Behavioral Neuroscience
[SCCO]Cognitive science
Dictator game
Age related
medicine
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Applied Psychology
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Neural correlates of consciousness
medicine.diagnostic_test
Trustworthiness detection
05 social sciences
[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance
Associative learning
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Trustworthiness
medicine.anatomical_structure
Mentalization
Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDSOCIETY
Trust Game
Psychology
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1937321X and 2151318X
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, American Psychological Association, 2020, 13 (1), pp.19-33. ⟨10.1037/npe0000112⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6a4a43c14881ef0d81a1c22747233cf2