TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - To blame or not? Modulating third-party punishment with the framing effect
JO  - Neuroscience bulletin
A1  - Yang, Jiamiao
A1  - Gu, Ruolei
A1  - Liu, Jie
A1  - Deng, Kexin
A1  - Huang, Xiaoxuan
A1  - Luo, Yue-Jia
A1  - Cui, Fang
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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 "third-party framing effect". 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 "harming others" in one condition and "not helping others" 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1673-7067
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12264-021-00808-3
ID  - ref1
ER  -