ISSN 0439-755X
CN 11-1911/B

Acta Psychologica Sinica ›› 2021, Vol. 53 ›› Issue (6): 651-666.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1041.2021.00651

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Influence of an individual’s own gains and losses on the evaluation of friends’ gambling results: Evidence from ERPs

YUE Tong1(), HUANG Xiting1(), YUE Caizhen2, XUE Liming1, FU Anguo3   

  1. 1Research Center for Psychology and Social Development, Southwest University; Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
    2College of National Culture and Cognitive Science, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang 550000, China
    3School of Management, Hainan University; Hainan Institute of Corporate Governance, Haikou 570228, China
  • Received:2020-08-14 Published:2021-06-25 Online:2021-04-25
  • Contact: YUE Tong,HUANG Xiting E-mail:yue.suhong @163.com;xthuang@swu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    National Social Science Foundation youth program(19CSH051)

Abstract:

In this study, FRN and P300 were used as response indicators to explore the effects of self-gains or losses on friends’ outcomes and how this mode of influence was regulated by the individual’s self-construction. The results showed that the FRN and P300 differences between watching friends’ gains and losses no longer existed under the condition of self-gains, and the FRN differences were significant even though the P300 differences between watching friends’ losses and gains disappeared under the condition of self-losses. Furthermore, no significant FRN differences were observed in the self-constructed group regardless of self-gains or losses. However, watching friends’ losses after self-gains elicited stronger P300 amplitude. The results of this study showed that: (1) the result evaluation model of friends was not fixed but varied with the individual’s own situation of gains and losses; (2) compared to the interdependent self-construction priming group, the independent self-construction priming group was more indifferent and more competitive in the face of friends’ gains and losses.

Key words: self-other representation, monetary gambling task, self-construal, FRN, P300