题目：Gratitude and pride: Neural currencies for others-blessed and self-gained rewards

主讲人：丁珂博士 瑞士苏黎世大学

时间：2019年12月23日（周一）15:00-16:00

地点：心理学院214

讲座摘要：

Gratitude and pride are both feelings related to accomplishment, whereby pride attributes success to oneself and gratitude to another. Previous investigations of those higher-order social emotions with functional neuroimaging mainly focused on certain single emotions but little is known about their differential neural representations, how these positive emotions change over time based on learning from the environment, and the underlying computational mechanisms. By drawing on a novel social interaction task, fMRI and computational models, we test for differential neural substrates of the emotions gratitude and pride. We found that gratitude was more associated with neural activities in the bilateral temporoparietal junction (TPJ), which has previously been implicated in Theory of Mind. In contrast, pride was more associated with neural activities in the caudate nucleus, which is part of the reward system, and hippocampus. Activity in ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) was related to an emotional prediction error signal, suggesting that this region might be involved in the process of updating the levels of gratitude and pride feelings. Our research identified neural substrates specific to gratitude and pride. Furthermore, the updating in values of gratitude and pride was similar to the reward learning that involves the mPFC. Our computational models showed that subjects’ received reward and certainty in their answers both contributed to feelings of gratitude and pride, but the benefactor’s actions were selectively contributing to building gratitude. Our learning model provides a mechanistic explanation of why people take help for granted after being exposed to a certain amount of help.

主讲人简介：

丁珂，德国慕尼黑大学心理学博士，瑞士苏黎世大学经济学系博士后。研究方向为医学影像，人工智能和心理学决策科学的交叉前沿学科。其研究在2017 被应邀为国际神经经济学协会在加拿大做大会报告，以及德国杜塞尔多夫大学，波鸿大学等多个德国研究机构应邀报告。