Reputational Priors Magnify Striatal Responses to Violations of Trust
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Humans learn to trust each other by evaluating the outcomes of repeated interpersonal interactions. However, available prior information on the reputation of traders may alter the way outcomes affect learning. Our functional magnetic resonance imaging study is the first to allow the direct comparison of interaction-based and prior-based learning. Twenty participants played repeated trust games with anonymous counterparts. We manipulated two experimental conditions: whether or not reputational priors were provided, and whether counterparts were generally trustworthy or untrustworthy. When no prior information is available our results are consistent with previous studies in showing that striatal activation patterns correlate with behaviorally estimated reinforcement learning measures. However, our study additionally shows that this correlation is disrupted when reputational priors on counterparts are provided. Indeed participants continue to rely on priors even when experience sheds doubt on their accuracy. Notably, violations of trust from a cooperative counterpart elicited stronger caudate deactivations when priors were available than when they were not. However, tolerance to such violations appeared to be mediated by prior-enhanced connectivity between the caudate nucleus and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, which anticorrelated with retaliation rates. Moreover, on top of affecting learning mechanisms, priors also clearly oriented initial decisions to trust, reflected in medial prefrontal cortex activity.
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- Authors
- Fouragnan, E., Chierchia, G., Greiner, S., Neveu, R., Avesani, P., & Coricelli, G.
- Affiliations
- University of Trento (IT)
- University of Southern California (US)
- Venue
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Society for Neuroscience
- Published
- 2013-02-20
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 3602-3611
- ISSN
- 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
- 1529-2401
- PMC
- PMC6619519
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- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Keywords
- trust, breach of trust, striatum, caudate nucleus, ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, reinforcement learning, trust game, retaliation, medial prefrontal cortex, prior information, social learning
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Corpus Striatum, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Middle Aged, Photic Stimulation, Psychomotor Performance, Trust, Young Adult
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