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The brain dynamics of trust decisions and outcome evaluation in narcissists
Individuals with narcissism are, by definition, self-centered, focus on self-benefit, and demonstrate less prosocial behaviors. Trusting strangers is risky, as it can result in exploitation and non-reciprocation. Thus, the trust may be antagonistic to narcissism. However, how narcissists make the ch...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9389113/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35992397 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.929674 |
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author | Guo, Fengbo Yang, Ziyang Liu, Tengfei Gu, Li |
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description | Individuals with narcissism are, by definition, self-centered, focus on self-benefit, and demonstrate less prosocial behaviors. Trusting strangers is risky, as it can result in exploitation and non-reciprocation. Thus, the trust may be antagonistic to narcissism. However, how narcissists make the choice to trust remains to be elucidated. The current study examined 44 participants (22 rated high in narcissism) playing as trustors in one-shot trust games, and their electroencephalograms were recorded. Individuals high in narcissism exhibited less trust toward strangers, especially following gaining feedback for their trust. In addition, narcissists exhibited a larger N2 following distrust and a stronger negatively-valanced difference in feedback-related negativity (dFRN) after trustee feedback. Our findings provide insights into how individuals with narcissism trust strangers. The results also shed light on the temporal course of brain activity involved in trust decision-making and outcome evaluation in individuals with narcissism. |
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spelling | pubmed-93891132022-08-20 The brain dynamics of trust decisions and outcome evaluation in narcissists Guo, Fengbo Yang, Ziyang Liu, Tengfei Gu, Li Front Psychol Psychology Individuals with narcissism are, by definition, self-centered, focus on self-benefit, and demonstrate less prosocial behaviors. Trusting strangers is risky, as it can result in exploitation and non-reciprocation. Thus, the trust may be antagonistic to narcissism. However, how narcissists make the choice to trust remains to be elucidated. The current study examined 44 participants (22 rated high in narcissism) playing as trustors in one-shot trust games, and their electroencephalograms were recorded. Individuals high in narcissism exhibited less trust toward strangers, especially following gaining feedback for their trust. In addition, narcissists exhibited a larger N2 following distrust and a stronger negatively-valanced difference in feedback-related negativity (dFRN) after trustee feedback. Our findings provide insights into how individuals with narcissism trust strangers. The results also shed light on the temporal course of brain activity involved in trust decision-making and outcome evaluation in individuals with narcissism. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9389113/ /pubmed/35992397 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.929674 Text en Copyright © 2022 Guo, Yang, Liu and Gu. 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. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Guo, Fengbo Yang, Ziyang Liu, Tengfei Gu, Li The brain dynamics of trust decisions and outcome evaluation in narcissists |
title | The brain dynamics of trust decisions and outcome evaluation in narcissists |
title_full | The brain dynamics of trust decisions and outcome evaluation in narcissists |
title_fullStr | The brain dynamics of trust decisions and outcome evaluation in narcissists |
title_full_unstemmed | The brain dynamics of trust decisions and outcome evaluation in narcissists |
title_short | The brain dynamics of trust decisions and outcome evaluation in narcissists |
title_sort | brain dynamics of trust decisions and outcome evaluation in narcissists |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9389113/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35992397 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.929674 |
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