@article{ref1,
title="The competition dynamics of approach and avoidance motivations following interpersonal transgression",
journal="Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America",
year="2023",
author="Shen, Bo and Chen, Yang and He, Zhewen and Li, Weijian and Yu, Hongbo and Zhou, Xiaolin",
volume="120",
number="40",
pages="e2302484120-e2302484120",
abstract="Two behavioral motivations coexist in transgressors following an interpersonal transgression-approaching and compensating the victim and avoiding the victim. Little is known about how these motivations arise, compete, and drive transgressors' decisions. The present study adopted a social interaction task to manipulate participants' (i.e., the transgressor) responsibility for another's (i.e., the victim) monetary loss and measure the participants' tradeoff between compensating the victim and avoiding face-to-face interactions with the victim. Following each transgression, participants used a computer mouse to choose between two options differing in the amount of compensation to the victim and the probability of face-to-face contact with the victim. <br><br>RESULTS showed that as participants' responsibility increased, 1) the decision weights on contact avoidance relative to compensation increased, and 2) the onset of the contact-avoidance attribute was expedited and that of the compensation attribute was delayed. These results demonstrate how competing social motivations following transgression evolve and determine social decision-making and shed light on how social-affective state modulates the dynamics of decision-making in general.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0027-8424",
doi="10.1073/pnas.2302484120",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2302484120"
}