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DATE: October 8, 2026 at 08:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG
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TITLE: People who favor group-based inequality tend to have less gray matter in an empathy-linked brain region
A person’s preference for group-based inequality and social hierarchies may be linked to both brain structure and a personality trait tied to reward seeking. According to a new study published in Current Psychology, young adults who score higher in social dominance orientation tend to have less gray matter in a brain region involved in empathy and emotional processing. The findings hint that social and political worldviews may be tied partly to basic motivational and emotional differences.
Social dominance orientation is a personality trait that captures how much an individual prefers inequality between social groups over equality. People who score high on this trait view society as naturally divided into superior and inferior groups, often supporting social systems and policies that maintain these hierarchies. In contrast, those with lower scores favor egalitarian relationships between groups and oppose group-based dominance.
To explore how this mindset relates to the physical brain, researchers focused on specific areas, including the anterior insula. The insula is an island of brain tissue tucked deep within the lateral groove on each side of the brain, positioned beneath the frontal, parietal, and temporal lobes. Its front portion, the anterior insula, plays a central role in detecting bodily sensations and processing the emotional experiences of others.
The study was led by Jesús Adrián-Ventura, a professor at the University of Zaragoza in Spain and a researcher with the Pseudo-Lab research group.
“Despite Social Dominance Orientation—the ideological belief that some groups should dominate others—being a central construct in social psychology, its neural underpinnings have received very little attention,” Adrián-Ventura told PsyPost. “We aimed to contribute to filling this gap, while also exploring predictors related to personality and motivation. Ultimately, we sought to investigate how stable brain traits (e.g., brain anatomy) and motivational drives jointly predispose individuals to endorse social hierarchies and inequality.”
Earlier psychological work helped establish this line of inquiry. For instance, a 2013 study indicated that people who strongly favor social dominance tend to report lower empathy in general.
Other research suggested that the desire for social hierarchy may be driven less by negative feelings toward other groups than by an appetite for rewards. In particular, a 2013 paper linked social dominance orientation to positive approach motivation, which is the psychological drive to actively pursue rewards. This finding pointed to the possibility that people who endorse hierarchies might find the prospect of higher social rank and power personally rewarding.
Scientists later began asking whether these persistent psychological tendencies correspond to measurable differences in brain anatomy. In a 2023 brain imaging study of adults in Singapore, researchers observed that higher social dominance scores were tied to less gray matter, the brain tissue made up mainly of nerve cell bodies, in the anterior insula and in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, an area just above the eye sockets involved in weighing values and regulating emotions.
Higher scores were also tied to more gray matter in the amygdala, an almond-shaped structure deep in the brain that helps process emotions such as fear. Some of those results did not hold up under stricter analysis methods, so Adrián-Ventura and his colleagues set out to test them again with refined techniques in a Spanish sample.
The researchers recruited 99 healthy young adults between the ages of 18 and 30, including 62 women and 37 men, from a university campus in Spain. All participants completed cognitive screening and filled out psychological surveys before undergoing brain scans. Two participants showed brain volume values that were potential statistical outliers and were excluded from the neuroimaging analyses, leaving a sample of 97 participants. The researchers had calculated in advance that about 84 participants would be needed to reliably detect a moderate correlation.
Participants completed an eight-item survey measuring social dominance orientation, rating statements about group equality and dominance on a scale from 1 to 7. They also completed a 24-item survey assessing sensitivity to reward, which measures how readily someone acts in response to potential incentives in daily life without worrying about negative outcomes. Brain scans were gathered using high-resolution 3-Tesla magnetic resonance imaging, a technique that produces detailed images of soft tissue without X-rays.
The team analyzed the scans using voxel-based morphometry, a computational approach that measures the volume of gray matter in specific parts of the brain. The authors analyzed predefined regions of interest based on a standardized anatomical brain atlas, adjusting their calculations for participant age and head size. They did not include sex as a separate factor, reasoning that adjusting for head size already captures much of the sex-related variation in brain volume.
The analyses indicated that higher scores on social dominance orientation were linked to less gray matter volume in both the left and right anterior insula. For the left anterior insula, the correlation with social dominance scores was r = -0.30, and for the right anterior insula, it was r = -0.29, representing moderate negative correlations after accounting for age and head size. Because testing several regions raises the odds of a chance finding, the researchers used a stricter threshold for statistical significance, and both insula results passed it.
An exploratory scan of the entire brain found no significant associations with social dominance anywhere, including the insula. The insula link appeared only in the targeted analysis of the three predefined regions.
Unlike the previous study in Singapore, the researchers did not find evidence linking social dominance to the amygdala or the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. The associations between dominance scores and gray matter volume in the amygdala were small and were not statistically significant. Similarly, the correlation with the ventromedial prefrontal cortex was not statistically significant.
“We were somewhat surprised by the absence of significant associations in the amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex, which contradicted the only previous neuroanatomical study on this topic,” Adrián-Ventura noted. “Because that prior study involved Singaporean Chinese adults while ours involved a Spanish sample, we suspect this discrepancy might reflect cultural differences. It suggests that while the anterior insula’s involvement might be a universally preserved pathway, other neural mechanisms of social dominance could be highly sensitive to distinct cultural landscapes.”
In their paper, the authors note that methodological differences, such as how the brain regions were outlined, could also explain the discrepancy, and they describe the cultural explanation as speculative.
At the behavioral level, social dominance orientation was positively related to sensitivity to reward, with a moderate correlation of r = 0.33. The researchers then built statistical models that predicted social dominance scores from anterior insula volume, age, and head size before adding reward sensitivity. Among the 95 participants with complete data, the full model accounted for up to 29 percent of the individual differences in social dominance scores, with reward sensitivity adding about 10 to 11 percentage points beyond what the other factors explained.
“The effects we observed are quite substantial,” Adrián-Ventura pointed out. “Importantly, structural brain features and personality traits are highly heritable and exhibit strong stability across the lifespan. This highlights that preferences for social hierarchies are not merely transient attitudes but may be rooted in early developmental and genetic factors.”
“In this sample, people who more strongly endorsed group-based hierarchies tended to have lower gray matter volume in the anterior insula and to report greater sensitivity to rewards,” said David V. Smith, an associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Temple University, director of the Temple University Brain Research and Imaging Center, and director of the Neuroeconomics Laboratory, who was not involved in the study.
“These findings offer interesting leads for investigating how motivational processes relate to these attitudes.” “The authors’ comparison with earlier work suggests partial support: they found a similar insula association in a different population, but no significant associations in the other two brain regions tested,” he added. “This is a useful follow-up, although I’d want larger studies before treating the pattern as well established.”
The insula findings sit in tension with earlier work by the same team. In a study covered by PsyPost in 2025, Adrián-Ventura and his colleagues reported that, in nearly the same group of Spanish young adults, higher scores on anti-hierarchical aggression, a facet of left-wing authoritarianism that captures hostility toward established authorities, were linked to a thinner cortex in the right anterior insula. That study measured cortical thickness rather than gray matter volume, and its attitude measure targeted hostility toward those in power rather than a general preference for group hierarchy, suggesting that quite different ideological stances may relate to the structure of the same brain region.
The authors suggest that the anterior insula findings might reflect differences in socio-emotional processing. Because the anterior insula helps people tune into the emotional distress and feelings of others, having less gray matter in this region could relate to reduced empathy. If that is the case, reduced sensitivity to others’ feelings, combined with a heightened drive toward incentives, could make individuals more comfortable endorsing social arrangements where some groups dominate others.
“We found that individuals who strongly endorse social hierarchies tend to have less gray matter volume in the anterior insula, a brain region typically involved in empathy and socio-emotional processing,” Adrián-Ventura said. “Furthermore, these individuals showed a heightened sensitivity to reward, suggesting a strong drive to pursue status that may override the negative social consequences of inequality. Together, our results reveal an underlying neurobiological and motivational predisposition associated with a higher social dominance orientation.”
As with all research, there are some caveats to consider. The study was cross-sectional, meaning it captured a snapshot of brain structure and personality traits at a single moment. These observations cannot establish that smaller insula volume causes someone to favor social hierarchies, nor can they determine whether adopting certain social beliefs alters brain tissue over time.
“A crucial caveat is that our study relies strictly on brain and personality measures, meaning we cannot definitively confirm that mechanisms like empathy directly mediate this relationship, although it is highly plausible,” Adrián-Ventura emphasized. “Furthermore, as this is an observational study, we cannot presume a causal direction between brain anatomy and behavioral outcomes. Finally, because our sample consisted of young Spanish adults (mostly university students), further cross-cultural research is needed to determine how well these neurobehavioral correlates generalize to other populations.”
“Lower gray matter volume does not automatically mean less empathy, and greater general reward sensitivity does not demonstrate that someone finds inequality rewarding,” Smith told PsyPost.
Smith also viewed the structural results with caution. “I would treat the anatomical findings as preliminary,” he said. “The targeted analyses and correction for multiple comparisons are strengths, but 97 participants is a relatively small sample for linking individual differences in brain anatomy to psychological traits, where estimated associations can be unstable in smaller samples. I’d also want to see whether the association holds when sex is included in the models, since adjusting for head size is not the same as adjusting for sex.”
The study was also not pre-registered, meaning the researchers did not publicly record their hypotheses and analysis plan in advance, unlike the Singapore study they sought to replicate. Future research will need to examine how sociodemographic variables such as sex and broader age distributions interact with these brain structures over time.
“More broadly, our research group investigates the neurocognitive factors associated with different belief systems—such as authoritarianism, pseudoscientific doctrines, and conspiracy theories—alongside interventions like empathetic refutation,” Adrián-Ventura said. “To advance this mission, our next steps involve examining new functional brain metrics (e.g., resting-state) and the potential mediating roles of behavioral variables such as empathy or perspective-taking. Finally, we aim to conduct longitudinal studies across more generalizable samples from adolescence to early adulthood, allowing us to track the development of these ideologies and establish causal predictors.”
Empathetic refutation is an approach to correcting false beliefs that first acknowledges the concerns behind them, while resting-state measures track brain activity when a person is not performing any task.
Smith also pointed toward experimental steps that could build upon the current findings. “I’d like to see a substantially larger, preregistered replication that directly measures empathy and tests whether people value their group being ahead of another group, even when their own group’s payoff stays the same,” he explained. “That would help distinguish a preference for relative advantage from a more general tendency to pursue rewards.”
The study, “Neuroanatomical correlates of social dominance orientation and the contributing role of reward sensitivity,” was authored by Jesús Adrián-Ventura, Angelo Fasce, Anna Miró-Padilla, Anastasia Cherednichenko, César Ávila, and Diego Avendaño.
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DATE: September 20, 2026 at 08:00AM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG
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TITLE: High testosterone is linked to “loss chasing” behavior after setbacks
URL: https://www.psypost.org/high-testosterone-is-linked-to-loss-chasing-behavior-after-setbacks/
A recent study suggests that while a person’s baseline testosterone levels do not directly determine how many risks they take, the hormone may influence how their body processes the outcomes of past decisions. By measuring sweat on the skin during a gambling game, scientists found evidence that testosterone alters how men respond to the bodily sensations that follow wins and losses. These findings were published in Psychoneuroendocrinology.
To understand how people navigate uncertainty, scientists often rely on a computer program called the Iowa Gambling Task. In this game, players choose cards from four decks to win virtual money. Two decks offer large payouts but come with massive penalties, making them risky and unprofitable in the long run. The other two decks offer smaller payouts but smaller penalties, making them the safer, winning strategy. Players do not know these rules in advance and must learn them through trial and error.
Past research has shown that our bodies often figure out the rules of the game before our conscious minds do. For example, a 1997 study showed that people generate unconscious bodily warning signals, measured through subtle increases in skin sweat, just before reaching for a risky deck. This phenomenon is known as the Somatic Marker Hypothesis, which proposes that these physical “gut feelings” help guide our decision-making.
Scientists later started exploring what biological factors might alter these gut feelings. A 2011 study indicated that people with higher levels of testosterone made riskier choices on the Iowa Gambling Task, suggesting the hormone might play a role. However, a 2026 meta-analysis covered by PsyPost evaluated dozens of previous experiments and found that testosterone has no reliable direct link to general risk-taking.
Because broad evidence for a direct link between testosterone and risky behavior remained weak, researchers began asking a different question. They wondered if the hormone instead works behind the scenes by altering how the body processes rewards, punishments, and those subtle gut feelings.
“This study is part of a larger research project investigating the relationship between hormones and decision-making,” study author Félix Duplessis-Marcotte, a doctoral candidate in neuropsychology at the Université du Québec à Montréal, told PsyPost. “The main study was recently published in Scientific Reports on the association between stress-induced cortisol (a hormone involved in the stress response) and decision-making.” Duplessis-Marcotte conducted the study alongside Marie-France Marin.
“As for testosterone, recent meta-analyses suggest that testosterone is not simply associated with people being more or less risk-taking overall,” he added. “That raised a different question: rather than asking whether testosterone relates to decision-making, what if it influences how people make decisions?”
To investigate this, the scientists recruited 55 young adults, consisting of 27 women and 28 men. At the start of the laboratory session, the participants provided saliva samples so the research team could measure their baseline testosterone levels. Each participant was then asked to complete 100 rounds of the Iowa Gambling Task on a computer.
As the participants played the game, the researchers continuously measured their electrodermal activity. This involves placing sensors on the hand to detect minute changes in sweat gland activity, which serves as an indicator of physiological arousal. The scientists separated these physical responses into two categories. Anticipatory responses were recorded in the seconds just before a participant selected a card, while feedback responses were recorded in the seconds immediately after the participant saw whether they won or lost money.
When analyzing the results, the scientists found that baseline testosterone levels were not associated with general risk-taking. Participants with high testosterone did not simply pick from the risky decks more often than those with low testosterone. This aligns with recent research suggesting the hormone does not act as a simple volume dial for risky behavior.
The research team also looked at the anticipatory sweat responses. In men, these physical warning signals grew stronger before picking from a risky deck as the game progressed, and these signals were associated with their upcoming choices. Women in the study tended to show fewer differences in physical arousal before safe versus risky choices, and they maintained a steady level of risk-taking throughout the game. However, a person’s testosterone level did not alter these anticipatory gut feelings or change how those feelings related to their choices.
Instead, the researchers found that testosterone was associated with how participants physically reacted to the outcomes of their decisions. When men saw the results of their card draws, their subsequent choices were influenced by a combination of their testosterone levels and their bodily responses to that feedback. For men with lower testosterone levels, a stronger physical reaction to an outcome was followed by a decrease in risk-taking on the next turn.
For men with higher testosterone levels, the opposite pattern emerged. A stronger physical reaction to a win or loss was followed by an increase in risk-taking on the subsequent draw. The hormone appeared to alter the motivational meaning of their physical arousal, turning a bodily signal that usually promotes caution into one that encourages risk. This specific relationship between testosterone, feedback-related sweat responses, and subsequent choices was not observed in the women studied.
“The main takeaway is that testosterone may not make people generally more risk-taking,” Duplessis-Marcotte said. “More broadly, these findings add to growing evidence that testosterone’s role in human behavior is more nuanced than the popular stereotype that it simply increases risk-taking.”
“Rather than directly driving risky behavior, testosterone may be associated with some of the affective and physiological processes through which people learn from previous experiences when making decisions,” he explained.
Beyond those moment-to-moment physical reactions, the scientists also noticed a broader behavioral trend related to testosterone following financial losses. Across both men and women, those with lower testosterone levels tended to switch to a safer deck after losing money. Those with higher testosterone levels showed persistent risk-taking after losses, a pattern that resembles “loss chasing” in gambling. They seemed less sensitive to the negative consequences of their choices.
The findings are in line with research covered by PsyPost in 2023, which found that testosterone does not drive general risk-taking but instead influences how individuals respond to decision feedback. However, that previous study administered artificial doses of testosterone to men experiencing severe energy deficits, whereas the new research measured natural hormone levels in both men and women.
Additionally, a 2025 study covered by PsyPost similarly found no overall link between testosterone and risk-taking, though it primarily evaluated the effects of an acute hormone dose on financial lottery choices in men rather than natural levels during a card game.
As with all research, there are a few things to keep in mind. “Our findings should be viewed as evidence of a subtle association rather than a large behavioral effect,” Duplessis-Marcotte noted. “It is important to note that this study is correlational in nature: no variables were experimentally manipulated, and all results can therefore not be interpreted in causal terms.”
“Also, we investigated decision-making with a single gambling task in a controlled lab-based setting,” he continued. “It is possible, and likely, that our results may be different if it was conducted in a social context (e.g., making decisions while being watched by someone), and using a different decision-making task.” Additionally, the measurements of sweat on the skin only indicate the intensity of a person’s physical arousal, not whether the emotion they felt was positive or negative. Future studies might use brain wave recordings to better understand the specific emotions tied to these choices.
Another detail to note is that the sample size was relatively small when the data was divided into groups based on both sex and hormone levels. The researchers also only measured baseline testosterone at the start of the study.
“I think the field should move beyond treating testosterone as a fixed trait measured once in the laboratory and instead examine its dynamic relationship with behavior,” Duplessis-Marcotte said. “Testosterone changes in response to social interactions, competition, and other contextual factors, so its association with decision-making may be strongest when we measure those real-time fluctuations.”
“Future studies combining repeated hormone measurements with physiological signals and more ecologically valid decision-making tasks could help clarify when and how testosterone influences the decision process,” he added.
The study, “Testosterone is associated with affective feedback processing in ambiguous decision-making,” was authored by Félix Duplessis-Marcotte, Valentin Magnon, and Marie-France Marin.
URL: https://www.psypost.org/high-testosterone-is-linked-to-loss-chasing-behavior-after-setbacks/
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A Brief History of the Universe (of Brains)
Gregory Berns wrote the most amazing chapter in What It's Like to be a Dog on why we have brains. I explain here.
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The Handbook of the Neuropsychology of Language by Miriam Faust, 2011
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Unpredictability is a childhood adversity that contributes to mental health problems
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Unpredictability is a childhood adversity that contributes to mental health problems
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Unpredictability is a childhood adversity that contributes to mental health problems
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Unpredictability is a childhood adversity that contributes to mental health problems
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Power corrupts, really.
Elon Musk: A Predictable Tragedy
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Interesting how we treat calm as a mountain to summit rather than a floor we're already standing on. The brain's threat detection is faster than its reasoning. Which one are you listening to?
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Can wiggling your pinky really stop cognitive decline? https://theconversation.com/can-wiggling-your-pinky-really-stop-cognitive-decline-285441 #biology #neuropsychology #science #STEM
Healthy older adults experienced measurable improvements in memory and physical performance even knowing their pill was a placebo. #placebo #memory #neuropsychology
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Healing Trauma!
Unlock the secrets to healing trauma! Explore how emotional coherence and metacognition can help you process difficult experiences and transform your identity. Learn how long to feel emotions and when to move forward.
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Researchers have identified a specific rapid oscillation pattern in the human thalamus that acts as a definitive bio-physiological signature for active states of consciousness, such as wakefulness and REM sleep.
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Scientists develop first-ever ‘smell map’ of receptors in noses | Health
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The internet calls it "ADHD object permanence." Science prefers the term prospective memory impairment.
When a task or vegetable lacks visual presence, it drops from working memory. Stop hiding goals in drawers. Use visual cues instead.
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Human vision: what we actually see – and don’t see – tells us a lot about consciousness
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The #stress #hormone #cortisol severely disrupts the brain's internal navigational system by impairing the function of grid cells in the entorhinal cortex, causing acute spatial disorientation.
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Libro: «Oración de la Gestalt»
Yo soy Yo.
Tú eres Tú.
Yo, no estoy en este mundo para cumplir tus expectativas.
Tú, no estas en este mundo para cumplir las mías.
Yo soy Yo.
Tú eres Tú.
Si en algún momento o en algún punto nos encontramos, será maravilloso.
Si no, no puede remediarse.
Falto de amor a Mí mismo cuando en el intento de complacerte me traiciono.
Falto de amor a Ti, cuando intento que seas como yo quiero, en vez de aceptarte como realmente eres.
Tú eres Tú y Yo soy Yo.
#TIL Practicing #SelfCompassion tends to increase #compassionate feelings toward others.
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What causes depression? What we know, don’t know and suspect https://theconversation.com/what-causes-depression-what-we-know-dont-know-and-suspect-267011 #neuropsychology #mentalhealth #science #STEM #biology
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Reports of “AI psychosis” are emerging.
Although artificial intelligence does not cause psychosis, the conversational, responsive, and seemingly empathic design of chatbots can intensify psychotic symptoms in vulnerable people.
Read more: https://omniletters.com/reports-of-ai-psychosis-are-emerging/
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Frontend Engineer (HTML/CSS/JavaScript, jsPsych)
ETH Zurich & University of St. Gallen
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Frontend Engineer (HTML/CSS/JavaScript, jsPsych)
ETH Zurich & University of St. Gallen
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Frontend Engineer (HTML/CSS/JavaScript, jsPsych)
ETH Zurich & University of St. Gallen
See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/eth-zurich-university-of-st-gallen-27779-frontend-engineer-html-css-javascript-jspsych/
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