Table II.

Effect of guilty feeling

Main effect of guilt								Simple main effects in the frontal cluster
Brain area	BA	Coordinates			Z‐val	Size	P‐corr	Guilt type	Coordinates			Z‐val	Size	P‐corr
		x	y	z					x	y	z
Ant cingulate	32/24	0	50	−2	3.46	1,717	<0.001	Deontological	−4	30	24	3.63	793	0.018
Med frontal gyrus	9/10	−12	40	12	3.05		<0.001	Altruistic	−4	52	20	3.14	458	0.144
Post cingulate	23	−4	−52	40	3.19	453	0.149

Ant, anterior; Med, medial; Post, posterior; BA, Brodmann area.

Maxima of regions showing significant BOLD signal changes in comparison of guilt (deontological and altruistic) as compared to control conditions (anger and sadness) (left side). There are also reported here the results obtained by comparing each single guilt‐type (i.e. deontological or altruistic) versus the corresponding emotional control condition (anger or sadness) (right side).

Stereotaxic coordinates are reported in Talairach space. See text for further details.