Psychopathic traits mediate guilt-related anterior midcingulate activity under authority pressure

Abstract Coercive power has different effects on individuals, and which were unable to be fully addressed in Milgram’s famous studies on obedience to authority. While some individuals exhibited high levels of guilt-related anxiety and refused orders to harm, others followed coercive orders throughou...

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Autores principales:	Yawei Cheng, Judith Chou, Róger Marcelo Martínez, Yang-Teng Fan, Chenyi Chen
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:2c446c8aeabd43aeabb9d4fb99b15d552021-12-02T16:50:24ZPsychopathic traits mediate guilt-related anterior midcingulate activity under authority pressure10.1038/s41598-021-94372-52045-2322https://doaj.org/article/2c446c8aeabd43aeabb9d4fb99b15d552021-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94372-5https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Coercive power has different effects on individuals, and which were unable to be fully addressed in Milgram’s famous studies on obedience to authority. While some individuals exhibited high levels of guilt-related anxiety and refused orders to harm, others followed coercive orders throughout the whole event. The lack of guilt is a well-known characteristic of psychopathy, and recent evidence portrays psychopathic personalities on a continuum of clustered traits, while being pervasive in a significant proportion in the population. To investigate whether psychopathic traits better explain discrepancies in antisocial behavior under coercion, we applied a virtual obedience paradigm, in which an experimenter ordered subjects to press a handheld button to initiate successive actions that carry different moral consequences, during fMRI scanning. Psychopathic traits modulated the association between harming actions and guilt feelings on both behavioral and brain levels. This study sheds light on the individual variability in response to coercive power.Yawei ChengJudith ChouRóger Marcelo MartínezYang-Teng FanChenyi ChenNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Yawei Cheng Judith Chou Róger Marcelo Martínez Yang-Teng Fan Chenyi Chen Psychopathic traits mediate guilt-related anterior midcingulate activity under authority pressure
description	Abstract Coercive power has different effects on individuals, and which were unable to be fully addressed in Milgram’s famous studies on obedience to authority. While some individuals exhibited high levels of guilt-related anxiety and refused orders to harm, others followed coercive orders throughout the whole event. The lack of guilt is a well-known characteristic of psychopathy, and recent evidence portrays psychopathic personalities on a continuum of clustered traits, while being pervasive in a significant proportion in the population. To investigate whether psychopathic traits better explain discrepancies in antisocial behavior under coercion, we applied a virtual obedience paradigm, in which an experimenter ordered subjects to press a handheld button to initiate successive actions that carry different moral consequences, during fMRI scanning. Psychopathic traits modulated the association between harming actions and guilt feelings on both behavioral and brain levels. This study sheds light on the individual variability in response to coercive power.
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title	Psychopathic traits mediate guilt-related anterior midcingulate activity under authority pressure
title_short	Psychopathic traits mediate guilt-related anterior midcingulate activity under authority pressure
title_full	Psychopathic traits mediate guilt-related anterior midcingulate activity under authority pressure
title_fullStr	Psychopathic traits mediate guilt-related anterior midcingulate activity under authority pressure
title_full_unstemmed	Psychopathic traits mediate guilt-related anterior midcingulate activity under authority pressure
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Psychopathic traits mediate guilt-related anterior midcingulate activity under authority pressure

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