Rodríguez Gómez, PabloMartín-Loeches Garrido, ManuelColmenares Gil, FernandoRomero Ferreiro, María VerónicaMoreno Montes, Eva María2025-12-152025-12-152020Rodríguez-Gómez, P., Martín-Loeches, M., Colmenares, F., Romero Ferreiro, M. V., & Moreno, E. M. (2020). He had it Comin’: ERPs Reveal a Facilitation for the Processing of Misfortunes to Antisocial Characters. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 20(2), 356-370. https://doi.org/10.3758/S13415-020-00773-W1530-702610.3758/s13415-020-00773-whttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/128925The authors thank all study participants for their cooperation. This research was supported by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) [grant numbers: PSI2014-60682-R and PGC2018-098876-B-100 to EMM, PSI2017-82357-P to MML, and PSI2014-51890-C2-1-P to FC]. PRG was supported by a Complutense University pre-doctoral scholarship. Referencias bibliográficas: • Bayer, M., Sommer, W., & Schacht, A. (2010). 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Brainwave responses from 20 participants were measured as they read sentences comprising a randomly delivered ending outcome (fortunate or unfortunate) to social agents previously profiled as prosocial or antisocial individuals. Fortunate outcomes delivered to prosocial and antisocial agents aimed to tap into empathy and envy/ annoying feelings, respectively, whereas unfortunate ones into compassion for prosocial agents and schadenfreude for antisocial ones. ERP modulations in early attention-capture (100-200 ms), semantic fit (400 ms), and late reanalysis processes (600 ms) were analyzed. According to the functional interpretation of each of these event-related electrophysiological effects, we conclude that: 1) a higher capture of attention is initially obtained in response to any type of outcome delivered to a prosocial versus an antisocial agent (frontal P2); 2) a facilitated semantic processing occurs for unfortunate outcomes delivered to antisocial agents (N400); and 3) regardless of the protagonist’s social profile, an increased later reevaluation for overall unfortunate versus fortunate outcomes takes place (Late Positive Potential). 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