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A neurobiological association of revenge propensity during intergroup conflict
Revenge during intergroup conflict is a human universal, but its neurobiological underpinnings remain unclear. We address this by integrating functional MRI and measurements of endogenous oxytocin in participants who view an ingroup and an outgroup member's suffering that is caused mutually (Re...
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eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7058385/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32122462 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.52014 |
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author | Han, Xiaochun Gelfand, Michele J Wu, Bing Zhang, Ting Li, Wenxin Gao, Tianyu Pang, Chenyu Wu, Taoyu Zhou, Yuqing Zhou, Shuai Wu, Xinhuai Han, Shihui |
author_facet | Han, Xiaochun Gelfand, Michele J Wu, Bing Zhang, Ting Li, Wenxin Gao, Tianyu Pang, Chenyu Wu, Taoyu Zhou, Yuqing Zhou, Shuai Wu, Xinhuai Han, Shihui |
author_sort | Han, Xiaochun |
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description | Revenge during intergroup conflict is a human universal, but its neurobiological underpinnings remain unclear. We address this by integrating functional MRI and measurements of endogenous oxytocin in participants who view an ingroup and an outgroup member's suffering that is caused mutually (Revenge group) or by a computer (Control group). We show that intergroup conflict encountered by the Revenge group is associated with an increased level of oxytocin in saliva compared to that in the Control group. Furthermore, the medial prefrontal activity in response to ingroup pain in the Revenge group but not in the Control group mediates the association between endogenous oxytocin and the propensity to give painful electric shocks to outgroup members, regardless of whether they were directly involved in the conflict. Our findings highlight an important neurobiological correlate of revenge propensity, which may be implicated in conflict contagion across individuals in the context of intergroup conflict. |
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spelling | pubmed-70583852020-03-09 A neurobiological association of revenge propensity during intergroup conflict Han, Xiaochun Gelfand, Michele J Wu, Bing Zhang, Ting Li, Wenxin Gao, Tianyu Pang, Chenyu Wu, Taoyu Zhou, Yuqing Zhou, Shuai Wu, Xinhuai Han, Shihui eLife Neuroscience Revenge during intergroup conflict is a human universal, but its neurobiological underpinnings remain unclear. We address this by integrating functional MRI and measurements of endogenous oxytocin in participants who view an ingroup and an outgroup member's suffering that is caused mutually (Revenge group) or by a computer (Control group). We show that intergroup conflict encountered by the Revenge group is associated with an increased level of oxytocin in saliva compared to that in the Control group. Furthermore, the medial prefrontal activity in response to ingroup pain in the Revenge group but not in the Control group mediates the association between endogenous oxytocin and the propensity to give painful electric shocks to outgroup members, regardless of whether they were directly involved in the conflict. Our findings highlight an important neurobiological correlate of revenge propensity, which may be implicated in conflict contagion across individuals in the context of intergroup conflict. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2020-03-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7058385/ /pubmed/32122462 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.52014 Text en © 2020, Han et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Han, Xiaochun Gelfand, Michele J Wu, Bing Zhang, Ting Li, Wenxin Gao, Tianyu Pang, Chenyu Wu, Taoyu Zhou, Yuqing Zhou, Shuai Wu, Xinhuai Han, Shihui A neurobiological association of revenge propensity during intergroup conflict |
title | A neurobiological association of revenge propensity during intergroup conflict |
title_full | A neurobiological association of revenge propensity during intergroup conflict |
title_fullStr | A neurobiological association of revenge propensity during intergroup conflict |
title_full_unstemmed | A neurobiological association of revenge propensity during intergroup conflict |
title_short | A neurobiological association of revenge propensity during intergroup conflict |
title_sort | neurobiological association of revenge propensity during intergroup conflict |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7058385/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32122462 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.52014 |
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