Nonlinear associations between human values and neuroanatomy

Zacharopoulos, George, Hanel, Paul, Lancaster, Thomas M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1322-2449, Ihssen, Niklas, Drakesmith, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8574-9560, Foley, Sonya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8390-2709, Maio, Gregory Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5408-5829 and Linden, David Edmund Johannes ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5638-9292 2017. Nonlinear associations between human values and neuroanatomy. Social Neuroscience 12 (6) , pp. 673-684. 10.1080/17470919.2016.1229215

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Abstract

Human values guide behaviour and the smooth functioning of societies. Schwartz’s circumplex model of values predicts a sinusoidal waveform in relations between ratings of the importance of diverse human value types (e.g., achievement, benevolence) and any variables psychologically relevant to them. In this neuroimaging study, we examined these non-linear associations between values types and brain structure. In 85 participants, we found the predicted sinusoidal relationship between ratings of values types and two measures of white matter, volume and myelin volume fraction, as well as for grey matter parameters in several frontal regions. These effects reveal new functional associations for structural brain parameters and provide a novel cross-validation of Schwartz’s model. Moreover, the sinusoidal waveform test can be applied to other circumplex models in social, affective and cognitive neuroscience.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) Medicine Psychology
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	human values, MRI, non-linear associations
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	1747-0919
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	5 January 2017
Date of Acceptance:	16 September 2016
Last Modified:	06 Nov 2024 11:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/94720

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