To Blame or Not?Modulating Third-Party Punishment with the Framing Effect  

作　　者：Jiamiao Yang Ruolei Gu Jie Liu Kexin Deng Xiaoxuan Huang Yue-Jia Luo Fang Cui 

机构地区：[1]School of Psychology,Shenzhen University,Shenzhen 518060,China [2]Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Affective and Social Neuroscience,Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center,Center for Brain Disorders and Cognitive Sciences,Shenzhen University,Shenzhen 518060,China [3]CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science,Institute of Psychology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100101,China [4]Department of Psychology,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049,China [5]Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology,Faculty of Psychology,Beijing Normal University,Beijing 100875,China

出　　处：《Neuroscience Bulletin》2022年第5期533-547,共15页神经科学通报（英文版）

基　　金：This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31871109,32071083,and 31900779);Shenzhen–Hong Kong Institute of Brain Science—Shenzhen Fundamental Research Institutions(2021SHIBS0003).

摘　　要：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.

关 键 词：Framing effect Third-party punishment Functional magnetic resonance imaging Mid-cingulate cortex INSULA 

分 类 号：R741[医药卫生—神经病学与精神病学]