- Titel
- Predicting Real-Life Self-Control From Brain Activity Encoding the Value of Anticipated Future Outcomes
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-719632
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2020
- Abstract (EN)
- Deficient self-control leads to shortsighted decisions and incurs severe personal and societal costs. Although neuroimaging has advanced our understanding of neural mechanisms underlying self-control, the ecological validity of laboratory tasks used to assess self-control remains largely unknown. To increase ecological validity and to test a specific hypothesis about the mechanisms underlying real-life self-control, we combined functional MRI during valuebased decision-making with smartphone-based assessment of real-life self-control in a large community sample (N = 194). Results showed that an increased propensity to make shortsighted decisions and commit self-control failures, both in the laboratory task as well as during real-life conflicts, was associated with a reduced modulation of neural value signals in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in response to anticipated long-term consequences. These results constitute the first evidence that neural mechanisms mediating anticipations of future consequences not only account for self-control in laboratory tasks but also predict real-life self-control, thereby bridging the gap between laboratory research and real-life behavior.
- Andere Ausgabe
- Psychological Science
- Link zum Artikel der zuerst in der Zeitschrift 'Psychological Science' erschienen ist
DOI: 10.1177/0956797619896357 - Freie Schlagwörter (DE)
- Selbstkontrolle, Entscheidungsfindung, Erfahrungssammlung, ventromedialer präfrontaler Kortex, ökologische Validität
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- self-control, decision-making, experience sampling, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, ecological validity
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 150
- Verlag
- Sage, London
- Förder- / Projektangaben
- German Research Foundation (DFG)
Volition and Cognitive Control SFB 940/2-2017 and 940/2-2018 - Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- publizierte Version / Verlagsversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-719632
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 03.09.2020
- Dokumenttyp
- Artikel
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch
- Lizenz / Rechtehinweis
