24/06/19
Speaker: Irene Parisi
Dishonesty could be modulated by many factors: personality traits, intelligence, environment, emotions. In particular sense of guilty, a ‘self-conscious’ moral emotion, is characterized by prosocial sentiments with specific moral believes, which can be predominantly driven by inner values (deontological guilt) or by more interpersonal situations (altruistic guilt). These two kinds of guilt involve peculiar manifestations, elicitors and functions. Relevant for this project, deontological rather than altruistic guilt plays a crucial role in the genesis and maintenance of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
The aim of this project is to use an economic game in which people are tempted to lie to other individuals (i.e. The temptation to Lie Card Game) to investigate whether: i) the induction of deontological and altruistic guilt differentially modulate interpersonal deception; ii) such induction would differentially affect moral behavior of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder patients, who are highly sensitive to deontological guilt; iii) the different effects of deontological and altruistic guilt on moral decisions will be reflected on a modulation of the motor readiness potential.