Inhibition of the right dlPFC by theta burst stimulation does not alter sustainable decision-making

Abstract Intergenerational sustainability is probably humankind’s most pressing challenge, exacerbated by the fact that the present generation has to incur costs in order to benefit future generations. However, people often fail to restrict their consumption, despite reporting strong pro-environment...

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Autores principales:	Benedikt P. Langenbach, Thomas Baumgartner, Dario Cazzoli, René M. Müri, Daria Knoch
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:4f17e3fce07341188136533143fce3182021-12-02T15:09:38ZInhibition of the right dlPFC by theta burst stimulation does not alter sustainable decision-making10.1038/s41598-019-50322-w2045-2322https://doaj.org/article/4f17e3fce07341188136533143fce3182019-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50322-whttps://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Intergenerational sustainability is probably humankind’s most pressing challenge, exacerbated by the fact that the present generation has to incur costs in order to benefit future generations. However, people often fail to restrict their consumption, despite reporting strong pro-environmental attitudes. Recent theorising sees self-control processes as key component of sustainable decision-making and correlational studies support this view, yet causal evidence is lacking. Using TMS, we here disrupted an area known to be involved in self-control processes, the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), to provide causal evidence as to whether diminished self-control leads to less intergenerational sustainability. Participants then engaged in a behavioural economic paradigm to measure sustainable decision-making towards the next generation. This adequately powered study could not find an effect of inhibiting the right dlPFC on intergenerational sustainability. This result holds when controlling for a number of relevant covariates like gender, trait self-control, pro-environmental attitudes, or cortical thickness at the stimulation site. We seek to explain this result methodologically and theoretically, and speculate about other brain areas that could be more strongly related to intergenerational sustainability, e.g. the mentalising network.Benedikt P. LangenbachThomas BaumgartnerDario CazzoliRené M. MüriDaria KnochNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2019)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Benedikt P. Langenbach Thomas Baumgartner Dario Cazzoli René M. Müri Daria Knoch Inhibition of the right dlPFC by theta burst stimulation does not alter sustainable decision-making
description	Abstract Intergenerational sustainability is probably humankind’s most pressing challenge, exacerbated by the fact that the present generation has to incur costs in order to benefit future generations. However, people often fail to restrict their consumption, despite reporting strong pro-environmental attitudes. Recent theorising sees self-control processes as key component of sustainable decision-making and correlational studies support this view, yet causal evidence is lacking. Using TMS, we here disrupted an area known to be involved in self-control processes, the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), to provide causal evidence as to whether diminished self-control leads to less intergenerational sustainability. Participants then engaged in a behavioural economic paradigm to measure sustainable decision-making towards the next generation. This adequately powered study could not find an effect of inhibiting the right dlPFC on intergenerational sustainability. This result holds when controlling for a number of relevant covariates like gender, trait self-control, pro-environmental attitudes, or cortical thickness at the stimulation site. We seek to explain this result methodologically and theoretically, and speculate about other brain areas that could be more strongly related to intergenerational sustainability, e.g. the mentalising network.
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author	Benedikt P. Langenbach Thomas Baumgartner Dario Cazzoli René M. Müri Daria Knoch
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title	Inhibition of the right dlPFC by theta burst stimulation does not alter sustainable decision-making
title_short	Inhibition of the right dlPFC by theta burst stimulation does not alter sustainable decision-making
title_full	Inhibition of the right dlPFC by theta burst stimulation does not alter sustainable decision-making
title_fullStr	Inhibition of the right dlPFC by theta burst stimulation does not alter sustainable decision-making
title_full_unstemmed	Inhibition of the right dlPFC by theta burst stimulation does not alter sustainable decision-making
title_sort	inhibition of the right dlpfc by theta burst stimulation does not alter sustainable decision-making
publisher	Nature Portfolio
publishDate	2019
url	https://doaj.org/article/4f17e3fce07341188136533143fce318
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Inhibition of the right dlPFC by theta burst stimulation does not alter sustainable decision-making

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