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  • Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Neuroimaging

Background:

  • Trust is fundamental to human social interactions.
  • Neural networks involved in social cognition process trust-based decisions.
  • The relationship between localized brain structure and trust tendency in healthy individuals is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the association between individual differences in trust tendency and regional gray matter volume.
  • To test the hypothesis that trust is linked to gray matter volume in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), amygdala, and anterior insula.

Main Methods:

  • Collected behavioral and neuroimaging data from 82 healthy participants.
  • Assessed trust tendency using self-report and a trustworthiness evaluation of faces task.
  • Employed voxel-based morphometry (VBM8-DARTEL) on structural MRI scans to analyze gray matter volume.

Main Results:

  • Increased gray matter volume in bilateral vmPFC and anterior insula was associated with higher trust.
  • Greater right amygdala volume showed a U-shaped relationship with trustworthiness ratings (both trustworthy and distrustworthy).
  • Dorsomedial prefrontal cortex structure also reflected trust tendency.

Conclusions:

  • Findings support the link between brain structure and social decision-making, specifically trust.
  • Regional gray matter volume in vmPFC, anterior insula, and amygdala are associated with individual differences in trust.
  • This research contributes to neural models of social behavior and trust.