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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Decision Science

Background:

  • Control aversion, the urge to resist external control over decisions, is common and impacts social interactions.
  • Individual differences in control aversion are significant but poorly understood.
  • Understanding these differences is crucial for public policy, e.g., in health compliance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying individual differences in control aversion.
  • To identify the role of social cognitions and brain activity in control-averse behavior.

Main Methods:

  • fMRI was used to measure brain activity in healthy participants making free versus controlled choices.
  • Self-report measures assessed participants' affects, social cognitions, and motivations.
  • Behavioral data on choice outcomes were collected with real consequences.

Main Results:

  • Perceived distrust and lack of understanding of the controller significantly predicted behavioral control aversion.
  • Functional connectivity between the inferior parietal lobule and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex explained neural control aversion.
  • Neural connectivity partially mediated the relationship between social cognitions and control aversion.

Conclusions:

  • Social cognitions, particularly distrust, are key behavioral drivers of control aversion.
  • A neural mechanism involving parietal-prefrontal connectivity underlies individual differences in control aversion.
  • This neural mechanism complements self-reported social cognitions, offering a more comprehensive model of control aversion.