Mistakes that affect others often are linked to increased feelings of responsibility and guilt. This especially holds for individuals high in obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS), who are characterized by inflated feelings of responsibility and a fear of causing harm to others. This event-related potential study investigated individual differences in OCS in social performance monitoring with a focus on the role of responsibility for other's harm and the error-related negativity (ERN). Healthy volunteers low (N = 27) or high (N = 24) in OCS performed a Flanker task in the presence of a gender-matched peer in three conditions. Mistakes could either have negative monetary consequences for 1) oneself, 2) the other, or 3) no one. Results showed enhanced ERNs for mistakes that harmed others instead of the self for individuals high in OCS, whereas individuals low in OCS showed decreased amplitudes specifically for mistakes affecting no one versus oneself. Amplitudes of the error positivity but not the ERN also were larger in the high OCS group. These findings indicate that high OCS are associated with enhanced performance monitoring in a social responsibility context, when mistakes harm others instead of the self, and demonstrate the importance of integrating the social context in performance monitoring research as a way to shed more light on obsessive-compulsive symptomatology.

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重要的错误：在不同责任背景下对强迫症状和社会绩效监测的事件相关潜在研究。

影响他人的错误通常与增加的责任感和内疚感有关。这尤其适用于强迫症 (OCS) 高的人，他们的特点是责任感膨胀和害怕对他人造成伤害。这项与事件相关的潜在研究调查了社会绩效监测中 OCS 的个体差异，重点是对他人伤害的责任和错误相关的消极性 (ERN)。OCS 中低 (N = 27) 或高 (N = 24) 的健康志愿者在三种情况下在性别匹配的同伴在场的情况下执行 Flanker 任务。错误可能对 1) 自己、2) 其他人或 3) 没有人产生负面的金钱后果。结果显示，对于 OCS 高的人，伤害他人而不是伤害自己的错误的 ERN 增强，而 OCS 低的个体则表现出降低的幅度，特别是对于没有人与自己影响的错误。在高 OCS 组中，错误阳性幅度而不是 ERN 幅度也更大。这些发现表明，当错误伤害他人而不是自我时，高 OCS 与社会责任背景下增强的绩效监控相关，并证明了将社会背景整合到绩效监控研究中的重要性，作为一种方式来揭示强迫症强迫症候群。