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The rewarding compensatory mechanism of music enhances the sense of fairness

Whether music can influence moral judgment is controversial in the aesthetics and philosophy of music. Aesthetic Autonomy pointed out that music had a morally educational function because of its lyrics or a particular context. The key to resolving the divergence is to select absolute music without l...

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Autores principales: Liu, Zhengxian, Yang, Lan, Long, Siyu, Wang, Junce, Si, Yajing, Huang, Lihui, Huang, Binxin, Ding, Rui, Lu, Jing, Yao, Dezhong
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9376466/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35979225
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.890739
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author Liu, Zhengxian
Yang, Lan
Long, Siyu
Wang, Junce
Si, Yajing
Huang, Lihui
Huang, Binxin
Ding, Rui
Lu, Jing
Yao, Dezhong
author_facet Liu, Zhengxian
Yang, Lan
Long, Siyu
Wang, Junce
Si, Yajing
Huang, Lihui
Huang, Binxin
Ding, Rui
Lu, Jing
Yao, Dezhong
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description Whether music can influence moral judgment is controversial in the aesthetics and philosophy of music. Aesthetic Autonomy pointed out that music had a morally educational function because of its lyrics or a particular context. The key to resolving the divergence is to select absolute music without lyrics or specific context as the eliciting material. In this study, 84 participants were recruited and randomly divided into three groups to complete the Ultimatum Game (UG) after listening to different stimuli: absolute music, white noise, and no sound. Behavioral results indicated that the participants’ acceptance of unfair offers was significantly lower in the music group. Also, participants in the music group have a shorter reaction time for rejecting an unfair offer than other unfair conditions. However, ERP comparison showed no significant difference in medial frontal negativity (MFN) amplitude, which reflects fairness levels, between the music group and the no sound group for either accepting or rejecting the moderately unfair offer. Brain network analyses revealed that participants in the music group showed stronger activation of rewarding circuits, including the ventral striatum, during the decision-making process of rejecting unfair offers, before the decision especially, compared to the no sound group. These results suggest that absolute music can influence fair decision-making. The reward activated by music compensates participants vicariously for the reward they receive for choosing self-interest in an unfair offer, participants no longer have to choose between self-interest and fairness norms, so the participants reject the unfair offer due to the negative emotions induced by the unfair offer.
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spelling pubmed-93764662022-08-16 The rewarding compensatory mechanism of music enhances the sense of fairness Liu, Zhengxian Yang, Lan Long, Siyu Wang, Junce Si, Yajing Huang, Lihui Huang, Binxin Ding, Rui Lu, Jing Yao, Dezhong Front Behav Neurosci Neuroscience Whether music can influence moral judgment is controversial in the aesthetics and philosophy of music. Aesthetic Autonomy pointed out that music had a morally educational function because of its lyrics or a particular context. The key to resolving the divergence is to select absolute music without lyrics or specific context as the eliciting material. In this study, 84 participants were recruited and randomly divided into three groups to complete the Ultimatum Game (UG) after listening to different stimuli: absolute music, white noise, and no sound. Behavioral results indicated that the participants’ acceptance of unfair offers was significantly lower in the music group. Also, participants in the music group have a shorter reaction time for rejecting an unfair offer than other unfair conditions. However, ERP comparison showed no significant difference in medial frontal negativity (MFN) amplitude, which reflects fairness levels, between the music group and the no sound group for either accepting or rejecting the moderately unfair offer. Brain network analyses revealed that participants in the music group showed stronger activation of rewarding circuits, including the ventral striatum, during the decision-making process of rejecting unfair offers, before the decision especially, compared to the no sound group. These results suggest that absolute music can influence fair decision-making. The reward activated by music compensates participants vicariously for the reward they receive for choosing self-interest in an unfair offer, participants no longer have to choose between self-interest and fairness norms, so the participants reject the unfair offer due to the negative emotions induced by the unfair offer. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9376466/ /pubmed/35979225 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.890739 Text en Copyright © 2022 Liu, Yang, Long, Wang, Si, Huang, Huang, Ding, Lu and Yao. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Liu, Zhengxian
Yang, Lan
Long, Siyu
Wang, Junce
Si, Yajing
Huang, Lihui
Huang, Binxin
Ding, Rui
Lu, Jing
Yao, Dezhong
The rewarding compensatory mechanism of music enhances the sense of fairness
title The rewarding compensatory mechanism of music enhances the sense of fairness
title_full The rewarding compensatory mechanism of music enhances the sense of fairness
title_fullStr The rewarding compensatory mechanism of music enhances the sense of fairness
title_full_unstemmed The rewarding compensatory mechanism of music enhances the sense of fairness
title_short The rewarding compensatory mechanism of music enhances the sense of fairness
title_sort rewarding compensatory mechanism of music enhances the sense of fairness
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9376466/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35979225
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.890739
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