Rejecting unfairness enhances the implicit sense of agency in the human brain

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 22822 - 11
• Main Authors: Wang, Yuru, Zhou, Jiaxin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.10.2024; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/378/2645/2647; 631/477; 631/477/2811; Adult; Behavior; Brain - physiology; Brain research; Compression; Cooperation; Electroencephalography; Emotions; Event-related potentials (ERPs); Evoked Potentials - physiology; Fairness; Female; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Male; multidisciplinary; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Sense of agency; Social behavior; Social interaction; Social norms; Temporal compression; Ultimatum game; Violations; Young Adult; Ultimatum game; Temporal compression; Event-related potentials (ERPs); Fairness; Sense of agency

Sense of agency (SoA) describes the feeling of control over one’s actions and their consequences. One proposed index of implicit SoA is temporal compression, which refers to the phenomenon that voluntary actions and their outcomes are perceived as closer in time than they actually are. The present s...