Emotion regulation strategies provide a means by which to modulate our social behavior. In this study, we investigated the effect of using reappraisal to both up- and downregulate social decision making. After being instructed on how to use reappraisal, participants played the Ultimatum Game while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging and applied the strategies of upregulation (reappraising the proposer's intentions as more negative), down-regulation (reappraising the proposer's intentions as less negative), as well as a baseline “look” condition. As hypothesized, when reappraising, decision acceptance rates were altered, with a greater number of unfair offers accepted while down-regulating and a greater number of unfair offers rejected while upregulating, both relative to the baseline condition. At the neural level, during reappraisal, significant activations were observed in the inferior and middle frontal gyrus (MFG), in addition to the medial prefrontal cortex and cingulate gyrus for unfair offers only. Regulated decisions involved left inferior frontal gyrus for upregulation and MFG for down-regulation strategies, respectively. Importantly, the effects of emotion modulation were evident in posterior insula, with less activation for down-regulation and more activation for upregulation in these areas. Notably, we show for the first time that top-down strategies such as reappraisal strongly affect our socioeconomic decisions.

Reappraising the Ultimatum: An fMRI Study of emotion regulation and decision making / Grecucci, Alessandro; C., Giorgetta; M., van 't Wout; Bonini, Nicolao; A. G., Sanfey. - In: CEREBRAL CORTEX. - ISSN 1460-2199. - ELETTRONICO. - 2013, 23:2(2013), pp. 399-410. [10.1093/cercor/bhs028]

Reappraising the Ultimatum: An fMRI Study of emotion regulation and decision making

Grecucci, Alessandro;Bonini, Nicolao;
2013-01-01

Abstract

Emotion regulation strategies provide a means by which to modulate our social behavior. In this study, we investigated the effect of using reappraisal to both up- and downregulate social decision making. After being instructed on how to use reappraisal, participants played the Ultimatum Game while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging and applied the strategies of upregulation (reappraising the proposer's intentions as more negative), down-regulation (reappraising the proposer's intentions as less negative), as well as a baseline “look” condition. As hypothesized, when reappraising, decision acceptance rates were altered, with a greater number of unfair offers accepted while down-regulating and a greater number of unfair offers rejected while upregulating, both relative to the baseline condition. At the neural level, during reappraisal, significant activations were observed in the inferior and middle frontal gyrus (MFG), in addition to the medial prefrontal cortex and cingulate gyrus for unfair offers only. Regulated decisions involved left inferior frontal gyrus for upregulation and MFG for down-regulation strategies, respectively. Importantly, the effects of emotion modulation were evident in posterior insula, with less activation for down-regulation and more activation for upregulation in these areas. Notably, we show for the first time that top-down strategies such as reappraisal strongly affect our socioeconomic decisions.
2013
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Grecucci, Alessandro; C., Giorgetta; M., van 't Wout; Bonini, Nicolao; A. G., Sanfey
Reappraising the Ultimatum: An fMRI Study of emotion regulation and decision making / Grecucci, Alessandro; C., Giorgetta; M., van 't Wout; Bonini, Nicolao; A. G., Sanfey. - In: CEREBRAL CORTEX. - ISSN 1460-2199. - ELETTRONICO. - 2013, 23:2(2013), pp. 399-410. [10.1093/cercor/bhs028]
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