Stimulating the Right Temporoparietal Junction with tDCS Decreases Deception in Moral Hypocrisy and Unfairness
Self-centered and other-regarding concerns play important roles in decisions of deception. To investigate how these two motivations affect deception in fairness related moral hypocrisy, we modulated the brain activity in the right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ), the key region for decision making i...
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| author | Honghong Tang Honghong Tang Honghong Tang Peixia Ye Peixia Ye Peixia Ye Shun Wang Shun Wang Shun Wang Ruida Zhu Ruida Zhu Ruida Zhu Song Su Luqiong Tong Chao Liu Chao Liu Chao Liu Chao Liu |
| author_facet | Honghong Tang Honghong Tang Honghong Tang Peixia Ye Peixia Ye Peixia Ye Shun Wang Shun Wang Shun Wang Ruida Zhu Ruida Zhu Ruida Zhu Song Su Luqiong Tong Chao Liu Chao Liu Chao Liu Chao Liu |
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| description | Self-centered and other-regarding concerns play important roles in decisions of deception. To investigate how these two motivations affect deception in fairness related moral hypocrisy, we modulated the brain activity in the right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ), the key region for decision making involved in self-centered and other-regarding concerns. After receiving brain stimulation with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), participants finished a modified dictator game. In the game, they played as proposers to make allocations between themselves and recipients and had a chance to deceive by misreporting their totals for allocations. Results show that deception in moral hypocrisy was decreased after anodal stimulation than sham and cathodal stimulation, only when participants know that their reported totals (appearing fair) would be revealed to recipients rather than being unrevealed. Anodal stimulation also increased offers to recipients than cathodal stimulation regardless of the revelation of reported totals. These findings suggest that enhancing the activity of rTPJ decreased deception caused by impression management rather than self-deception in moral hypocrisy and unfairness through facilitating other-regarding concerns and weakening non-material self-centered motivations. They provide causal evidence for the role of rTPJ in both other-regarding concerns and non-material self-centered motivations, shedding light on the way to decrease moral hypocrisy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c031ae373f584e60985574f6645cfceb2022-12-22T00:00:42ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782017-11-01810.3389/fpsyg.2017.02033298038Stimulating the Right Temporoparietal Junction with tDCS Decreases Deception in Moral Hypocrisy and UnfairnessHonghong Tang0Honghong Tang1Honghong Tang2Peixia Ye3Peixia Ye4Peixia Ye5Shun Wang6Shun Wang7Shun Wang8Ruida Zhu9Ruida Zhu10Ruida Zhu11Song Su12Luqiong Tong13Chao Liu14Chao Liu15Chao Liu16Chao Liu17Business School, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaCenter for Collaboration and Innovation in Brain and Learning Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaCenter for Collaboration and Innovation in Brain and Learning Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaBeijing Key Laboratory of Brain Imaging and Connectomics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaCenter for Collaboration and Innovation in Brain and Learning Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaBeijing Key Laboratory of Brain Imaging and Connectomics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaCenter for Collaboration and Innovation in Brain and Learning Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaBeijing Key Laboratory of Brain Imaging and Connectomics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaBusiness School, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaBusiness School, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaBusiness School, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaCenter for Collaboration and Innovation in Brain and Learning Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaBeijing Key Laboratory of Brain Imaging and Connectomics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaSelf-centered and other-regarding concerns play important roles in decisions of deception. To investigate how these two motivations affect deception in fairness related moral hypocrisy, we modulated the brain activity in the right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ), the key region for decision making involved in self-centered and other-regarding concerns. After receiving brain stimulation with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), participants finished a modified dictator game. In the game, they played as proposers to make allocations between themselves and recipients and had a chance to deceive by misreporting their totals for allocations. Results show that deception in moral hypocrisy was decreased after anodal stimulation than sham and cathodal stimulation, only when participants know that their reported totals (appearing fair) would be revealed to recipients rather than being unrevealed. Anodal stimulation also increased offers to recipients than cathodal stimulation regardless of the revelation of reported totals. These findings suggest that enhancing the activity of rTPJ decreased deception caused by impression management rather than self-deception in moral hypocrisy and unfairness through facilitating other-regarding concerns and weakening non-material self-centered motivations. They provide causal evidence for the role of rTPJ in both other-regarding concerns and non-material self-centered motivations, shedding light on the way to decrease moral hypocrisy.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02033/fulldeceptionfairnessmoral hypocrisyimpression managementself-deceptiontranscranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) |
| spellingShingle | Honghong Tang Honghong Tang Honghong Tang Peixia Ye Peixia Ye Peixia Ye Shun Wang Shun Wang Shun Wang Ruida Zhu Ruida Zhu Ruida Zhu Song Su Luqiong Tong Chao Liu Chao Liu Chao Liu Chao Liu Stimulating the Right Temporoparietal Junction with tDCS Decreases Deception in Moral Hypocrisy and Unfairness Frontiers in Psychology deception fairness moral hypocrisy impression management self-deception transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) |
| title | Stimulating the Right Temporoparietal Junction with tDCS Decreases Deception in Moral Hypocrisy and Unfairness |
| title_full | Stimulating the Right Temporoparietal Junction with tDCS Decreases Deception in Moral Hypocrisy and Unfairness |
| title_fullStr | Stimulating the Right Temporoparietal Junction with tDCS Decreases Deception in Moral Hypocrisy and Unfairness |
| title_full_unstemmed | Stimulating the Right Temporoparietal Junction with tDCS Decreases Deception in Moral Hypocrisy and Unfairness |
| title_short | Stimulating the Right Temporoparietal Junction with tDCS Decreases Deception in Moral Hypocrisy and Unfairness |
| title_sort | stimulating the right temporoparietal junction with tdcs decreases deception in moral hypocrisy and unfairness |
| topic | deception fairness moral hypocrisy impression management self-deception transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02033/full |
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