The investigators will examine whether perceived social exclusion provoke a reduction in prosocial behavior in BPD patients.
The investigators will examine whether perceived social exclusion provoke a reduction in prosocial behavior, such as empathy, in BPD patients and whether this "fight-or-flight" pattern is also seen in other relevant aspects of social behavior, such as sharing and punishment behavior. To induce social exclusion all participants will play cyberball, either the exclusion condition or the (over)inclusion condition before testing
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
196
cyberball game: ex- versus over-inclusion condition
Charite University
Berlin, Germany
empathy
Multifaceted Empathy Test
Time frame: 30 minutes after cyberball
sharing behavior: amount of monetary units (max 30) shared with co-player
Computer game
Time frame: directly after cyberball
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