Determinants and modulators of human social decisions

Damiano Terenzi; Lu Liu; Gabriele Bellucci; Soyoung Q Park

doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.06.041

Determinants and modulators of human social decisions

Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2021 Sep:128:383-393. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.06.041. Epub 2021 Jun 30.

Authors

Damiano Terenzi¹, Lu Liu², Gabriele Bellucci³, Soyoung Q Park⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Decision Neuroscience and Nutrition, German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE), Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany; Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10117, Berlin, Germany; Berlin Institute of Health, Neuroscience Research Center, 10117, Berlin, Germany; Deutsches Zentrum für Diabetes, Neuherberg, Germany. Electronic address: damianoterenzi@gmail.com.
² Department of Decision Neuroscience and Nutrition, German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE), Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany; Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10117, Berlin, Germany; Berlin Institute of Health, Neuroscience Research Center, 10117, Berlin, Germany; Deutsches Zentrum für Diabetes, Neuherberg, Germany; Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. Electronic address: luliubnupsy@foxmail.com.
³ Department of Computational Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Tübingen, Germany.
⁴ Department of Decision Neuroscience and Nutrition, German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE), Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany; Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10117, Berlin, Germany; Berlin Institute of Health, Neuroscience Research Center, 10117, Berlin, Germany; Deutsches Zentrum für Diabetes, Neuherberg, Germany.

PMID: 34216653
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.06.041

Abstract

Social decision making is a highly complex process that involves diverse cognitive mechanisms, and it is driven by the precise processing of information from both the environment and from the internal state. On the one hand, successful social decisions require close monitoring of others' behavior, in order to track their intentions; this can guide not only decisions involving other people, but also one's own choices and preferences. On the other hand, internal states such as own reward or changes in hormonal and neurotransmitter states shape social decisions and their underlying neural function. Here, we review the current literature on modulators and determinants of human social decisions.

Keywords: Generosity; Neural activity; Neuroimaging; Neuromodulators; Social decision; Social interaction; Trust.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Decision Making*
Humans
Reward*
Social Behavior