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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Yuqi Gong, Li Yao, Xiaoyi Chen, Qingling Xia, Jun Jiang, Xue Du
Summary: Group interaction is important for social development, and the group identity of individuals affects their mental processing and decision-making. This study found that deaf college students exhibit ingroup bias when facing proposers from different groups, and show more positive responses to ingroup members under fairness conditions.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Liyan Xu, Biye Wang, Wei Guo
Summary: Self-contribution plays an influential role in fairness consideration and behavioral decisions. This study investigated the combined effects of task difficulty and self-contribution on fairness consideration outcomes and associated neurophysiological responses. The results showed that individuals' decisions in cooperative contexts are influenced by their own effort contributions relative to those of others.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Medicine, General & Internal
Antonella Ferrara, Mariachiara Rapuano, Gennaro Ruggiero
Summary: Recent research has investigated whether the representation of space around the body, in terms of reach-action and comfort-social spaces, may reflect a shared sensorimotor basis. Studies on motor plasticity induced by tool use have shown mixed results in terms of sensorimotor identity. This study found that while reaching space was significantly affected by motor plasticity, comfort space required consideration of social context information.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Mathematics
Asier Estevan, Roberto Maura, Oscar Valero
Summary: In this paper, the authors offer counterparts of famous impossibility theorems for continuous social intergenerational preferences. They provide a refined topology to satisfy anonymity and strong monotonicity for continuous preferences. Additionally, they propose quasi-pseudo-metrics as a quantitative tool to reconcile topology and social intergenerational preferences. The authors develop a metric-type method that guarantees the possibility counterparts of the mentioned impossibility theorems and provides numerical quantifications of welfare improvement. They also present a refinement of the method involving metrics.
Article
Neurosciences
Jin Li, Nian Xu, Yiping Zhong
Summary: Individuals tend to reciprocate cooperative or aggressive actions based on their reciprocity preferences, which are positively correlated with their reciprocity expectations. Monetary payoffs can heighten expectations of negative reciprocity, particularly at the automatic outcome processing stage.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Jui-Hong Chien, I-Tzu Hung, Joshua Oon Soo Goh, Li-Wei Kuo, Wei-Wen Chang
Summary: Social power differences play a fundamental role in shaping the dynamics of group and societal interactions. This study used functional brain imaging to investigate the neural correlates of individual socio-cultural preferences in social interactions involving persons of different power status. The findings revealed that personal preferences for power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and cultural intelligence modulated neural activity in distinct brain networks during decision-making processes. These results highlight the importance of considering socio-cultural factors in understanding social behavior.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Carina Fernandes, Rita Pasion, Ana R. Goncalves, Rita Almeida, Helena Garcez, Fernando Ferreira-Santos, Fernando Barbosa, Joao Marques-Teixeira
Summary: The current study aimed to investigate the neural correlates of utilitarian and deontological responses to moral dilemmas across the lifespan. The findings suggest that older adults may experience increased conflict when making utilitarian decisions during moral decision-making.
NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Whitney D. Allen, Rebekah E. Rodeback, Kaylie A. Carbine, Ariana M. Hedges-Muncy, James D. LeCheminant, Patrick R. Steffen, Michael J. Larson
Summary: Stress influences food-related inhibitory control, but the mechanisms are not well understood. In this study, participants completed food-specific inhibitory control tasks after undergoing the Trier Social Stress Test or a neutral control task. Results showed increased N2 component amplitude following stress, possibly reflecting heightened arousal. There were no significant differences between groups for P3 amplitude or behavioral measures.
Article
Environmental Studies
Maxime Felder, Guillaume Favre, Marina Tulin, Petros Koutsolampros
Summary: While scholars have established that social proximity influences relationship development in urban settings, this paper investigates the role of spatial proximity in neighbor relations, specifically in rented apartment buildings in Geneva. Through statistical analysis of four social network datasets, the study compares the effects of spatial proximity with individual determinants and similarity, and explores the impact on weak ties and invisible ties. The findings confirm the influence of spatial proximity on weak ties and highlight the constitutive dimensions of neighboring, including sociability, familiarity, and anonymity.
HOUSING THEORY & SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Lisette Ibanez, Sebastien Roussel
Summary: This study investigates the influence of induced emotions on pro-environmental behavior (PEB), showing that emotional states can significantly impact individual donations to environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs). The exact effects of emotional states are complex and depend on individuals' characteristics and environmental awareness levels. Negative emotions lead to reduced donations, while positive emotions can lead to different donation patterns based on gender and environmental awareness.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
B. Rauchbauer, C. Lorenz, C. Lamm, D. M. Pfabigan
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the time course of interference control during automatic imitation and its modulation by social context. The cognitive control/action monitoring ERP components were influenced by social context manipulation and congruency, while PMP amplitudes were only sensitive to congruency. The N450 component predicted behavioral outcomes in different social contexts.
COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Xinke Wang, Qingyan Meng, Xingzhao Liu, Mona Allam, Linlin Zhang, Xinli Hu, Yaxin Bi, Tamas Jancso
Summary: This study aims to develop a fairness assessment model to quantify the fairness of urban park green space (UPGS) distribution in Beijing and analyze its matching relationship with residents' demand. The results show that the per capita supply of UPGS is unevenly distributed among the urban districts, leading to a sense of unfairness among residents. Additionally, the matching relationship between UPGS supply and the needs of different social groups, especially the elderly, is not ideal. This study provides valuable insights for optimizing UPGS and informing urban management decisions.
Article
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Yang Liu, Bo Dong, Jiajia Yang, Yoshimichi Ejima, Jinglong Wu, Qiong Wu, Ming Zhang
Summary: Neuronal excitation and inhibition occur simultaneously in the somatosensory system, allowing humans to easily discriminate between multiple stimuli by balancing suppression and enhancement effects.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROINFORMATICS
(2021)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Laura Jimenez-Ortega, Clara Hinchcliffe, Francisco Munoz, David Hernandez-Gutierrez, Pilar Casado, Jose Sanchez-Garcia, Manuel Martin-Loeches
Summary: Personality traits such as neuroticism, extraversion, and conscientiousness were found to interact with error rate and reaction time during morphosyntactic processing, with different patterns observed for each trait. Neuroticism and extraversion showed differences in brain response to morphosyntactic anomalies in the presence of social interaction, while conscientiousness was related to a stronger LAN and a weaker P600 component in response to these anomalies.
LANGUAGE COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Ann-Kathrin Beck, Daniela Czernochowski, Thomas Lachmann, Stefan Berti
Summary: This study aimed to assess the influence of categorical information on both early perceptual and later cognitive processing. Results showed that abstract categorical information was encoded during early perceptual processing, but there was no additional encoding of categorical information in later cognitive stages of processing.
BRAIN AND COGNITION
(2021)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Yi Huang, Narun Pat, Bing Cai Kok, Jingwen Chai, Lei Feng, Rongjun Yu
Summary: This study investigated how older adults experience regret and how they make choices to avoid potential regret in making decisions for themselves and on behalf of others. The findings suggest that although older adults experience blunted regret, their ability to use prospective regret to guide decision-making remains intact.
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Yi Huang, Manling Li, Rongjun Yu
Summary: Choices not only reflect preference but also shape preference. Elderly individuals are less susceptible to choice-induced preference change compared to younger individuals, but they show similar effects when reminded explicitly of their previous choices. This suggests that older adults tend to downplay information leading to cognitive dissonance and only use this strategy when the information is relatively implicit.
JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY SERIES B-PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Rongjun Zher-Wen, Rongjun Yu
Summary: Integrative processing is believed to rely on consciousness, but recent challenges have emerged regarding the existence of subliminal integration. This review critically evaluates evidence for 10 types of widely studied subliminal integration, including arithmetic processing, object-context integration, multi-word processing, etc., and also considers methodological issues related to awareness measures. The conclusion suggests that while reliable evidence for subliminal integration is lacking, this does not invalidate the concept of 'unconscious' integration defined through non-subliminal approaches.
BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Yi Huang, Xin Huang, Rongjun Yu
Summary: Although mass vaccination is crucial for controlling the spread of COVID-19, vaccine rates are still suboptimal in most countries. Behavioral interventions, including nonfinancial strategies and monetary incentives, have been widely used to promote vaccination, but their effects are mixed.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Zher-Wen, Rongjun Yu
Summary: While other types of subliminal integrative processing have been refuted by recent studies, subliminal same-different processing (SSDP) remains unchallenged. This study examines the occurrence of SSDP on a perceptual and semantic basis using shapes, categorical images, and Chinese characters as stimuli. Although some significant results were found, the effects are much weaker than previous studies, suggesting that more reliable evidence is needed to substantiate claims of SSDP.
CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Nawal Hashim, Nastassja L. Fischer, Elizabeth B. Kim, Wei-Jun Jean Yeung, Rongjun Yu
Summary: This study investigated the influences of socioeconomic status and theory of mind skills on young children's sharing and generosity. The results showed that the father's education level and children's appearance-reality understanding were significant predictors of sharing behavior, while children's appearance-reality understanding was the sole predictor of generosity.
BRITISH JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Sai Sun, Hongbo Yu, Shuo Wang, Rongjun Yu
Summary: This study investigated the behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying visual salience-driven decision-making. The results showed that visual salience significantly influenced decision-making behavior and this effect was modulated by feedback information. Eye-tracking and text emphasis experiments further confirmed this effect and identified the important roles of attention and the frontal-striatal valuation system in visual salience-driven decision-making.
Article
Neurosciences
Mohith M. Varma, Shanshan Zhen, Rongjun Yu
Summary: This study examined the discounting of rewards associated with different costs using three different methods and found partial dissociations between brain regions involved in temporal- and effort-based decision-making. It also revealed that low-cost and high-cost options are processed in different brain networks.
Article
Psychiatry
Sai Sun, Hongbo Yu, Rongjun Yu, Shuo Wang
Summary: The processing of facial expressions of emotion involves a distributed brain network, and judging ambiguous facial emotions requires coordination between different brain areas. Through multimodal analysis, we found directional effective connectivity between the amygdala, dmPFC, and ventromedial PFC, revealing both bottom-up and top-down processes involved in the perception and resolution of ambiguity in facial expressions.
TRANSLATIONAL PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Educational
Patrick W. C. Lau, Huiqi Song, Di Song, Jing-Jing Wang, Shanshan Zhen, Lei Shi, Rongjun Yu
Summary: This cross-sectional study explored the relationship between 24-hour movement behaviors and executive function in preschool children. The study found that the daily composition of behaviors was significantly associated with inhibitory control and working memory. Improvements in inhibitory control were linked to an increase in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity at the expense of sedentary behavior and sleep. The reallocation of physical activity, sedentary behavior, sleep, and light physical activity was significantly associated with working memory.
Article
Psychology, Social
Shanshan Zher-Wen, Shanshan Zhen, Rongjun Yu
Summary: This study aims to assess whether different aspects of moral decision-making can predict vaccination behavior. The findings suggest that supportive vaccination is associated with utilitarianism and increased tolerance towards risks and harm to others, while the non-vaccinated group is associated with higher harm sensitivities.
JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sai Sun, Runnan Cao, Ueli Rutishauser, Rongjun Yu, Shuo Wang
Summary: This comprehensive multimodal dataset provides a holistic exploration of facial emotion perception and judgment, emphasizing the importance of integrating multiple modalities in gaining a comprehensive understanding of this cognitive process.
Article
Neurosciences
Mohith M. Varma, Avijit Chowdhury, Rongjun Yu
Summary: Humans experience emotions of regret and relief when anticipating and evaluating outcomes. A meta-analysis of fMRI studies revealed that both regret and relief are associated with activation in the right ventral striatum at the regional level, and share the reward-sensitive mesocorticolimbic network at the network level.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Rong Wang, Shanshan Zhen, Changsong Zhou, Rongjun Yu
Summary: This study investigated the impact of acute stress on brain networks using whole-brain resting-state functional MRI. The results showed that acute stress induces a more integrated and stable state in brain networks, possibly to cope with stress more efficiently.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Letter
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Shanshan Zhen, Rongjun Yu
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
