@article{ref1,
title="To blame or not? Modulating third-party punishment with the framing effect",
journal="Neuroscience bulletin",
year="2022",
author="Yang, Jiamiao and Gu, Ruolei and Liu, Jie and Deng, Kexin and Huang, Xiaoxuan and Luo, Yue-Jia and Cui, Fang",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="People as third-party observers, without direct self-interest, may punish norm violators to maintain social norms. However, third-party judgment and the follow-up punishment might be susceptible to the way we frame (i.e., verbally describe) a norm violation. We conducted a behavioral and a neuroimaging experiment to investigate the above phenomenon, which we call the &quot;third-party framing effect&quot;. In these experiments, participants observed an anonymous perpetrator deciding whether to keep her/his economic benefit while exposing a victim to a risk of physical pain (described as &quot;harming others&quot; in one condition and &quot;not helping others&quot; in the other condition), then they had a chance to punish that perpetrator at their own cost. Our results showed that the participants were more willing to execute third-party punishment under the harm frame compared to the help frame, manifesting a framing effect. Self-reported anger toward perpetrators mediated the relationship between empathy toward victims and the framing effect. Meanwhile, activation of the insula mediated the relationship between mid-cingulate cortex activation and the framing effect; the functional connectivity between these regions significantly predicted the size of the framing effect. These findings shed light on the psychological and neural mechanisms of the third-party framing effect.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1673-7067",
doi="10.1007/s12264-021-00808-3",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12264-021-00808-3"
}