{"title":"A matter of perspective: Distinct brain mechanisms for evaluating positive and negative social feedback about oneself and another person","authors":"E. Weik, N. Virji-Babul, U. Ribary, C. Tipper","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2022.2058081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2022.2058081","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Social rejection is a common experience in the life of young adults. Electroencephalographic (EEG) such as N1, P1 and P3 amplitude has been linked to experiencing social rejection; it remains unclear, whether these components are also influenced by the perspective, e.g., feedback directed to oneself or another person. We used EEG to investigate brain mechanisms associated with social feedback, directed either to oneself or another person. Female students (N = 57) engaged in a Chatroom Interact Task (CIT) during EEG. In this task participants received feedback as to whether themselves or someone else was accepted or rejected as a video chat partner. Mood was measured with the Positive Affect Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). Participants showed more negative mood after rejection compared to acceptance. Spatiotemporal EEG cluster analysis revealed significant differences in P1, N1 and P3 ERP components associated with Acceptance vs. Rejection. The late positive potential (LPP) component was larger when processing self vs. other-related social feedback. Higher empathy, neuroticism, and lower age were associated with smaller LPP amplitude differences between Self and Other conditions. In this study we identified distinct brain dynamics associated with encoding social feedback and whether the feedback was targeted toward the self or to others.","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":"17 1","pages":"193 - 208"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48318691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shame proneness is associated with individual differences in temporal pole white matter structure.","authors":"Carlos Makoto Miyauchi, Hikaru Takeuchi, Yasuyuki Taki, Seishu Nakagawa, Sugiko Hanawa, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Rui Nouchi, Yuko Sassa, Ryuta Kawashima","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2022.2039287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2022.2039287","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Shame and guilt are distinct negative moral emotions, although they are usually regarded as overlapping affective experiences. Of these two emotions, shame is more closely related to concerns about other people's judgment, whereas guilt is more related to concerns about one's own judgment. Although some studies have tried to identify the psychological process underlying shame as opposed to guilt, there is no clear evidence of brain regions that are specifically relevant to the experience of shame rather than guilt and, more generally, self-blame. We therefore investigated associations between individual differences in shame- and guilt-proneness and the gray and white matter structures of the brain using magnetic resonance imaging and voxel-based morphometry while controlling for associations with guilt- or shame-proneness. To accomplish this goal, we enrolled 590 healthy, right-handed individuals (338 men and 252 women; age, 20.6 ± 1.8 years). We administered a questionnaire to assess shame proneness and guilt proneness. Based on our hypothesis, we found that high shame proneness was associated with decreased regional white matter density only in the right inferior temporal pole, whereas no significant region was associated with guilt. The function of this area may be important for the underlying processes differentiating shame from guilt.</p>","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":"17 2","pages":"117-126"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39773539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social NeurosciencePub Date : 2022-04-01Epub Date: 2022-03-03DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2022.2043935
Ariel W Snowden, Allison S Hancock, Catalin V Buhusi, Christopher M Warren
{"title":"Event-related correlates of evolving trust evaluations.","authors":"Ariel W Snowden, Allison S Hancock, Catalin V Buhusi, Christopher M Warren","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2022.2043935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2022.2043935","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Accurate decisions about whether to trust someone are critical for adaptive social behavior. Previous research into trustworthiness decisions about face stimuli have focused on individuals. Here, decisions about groups of people are made cumulatively on the basis of sequences of faces. Participants chose to either increase or withdraw an initial investment in mock companies based on how trustworthy the company representatives (face stimuli) appeared. Companies were formed using participant trust ratings from the previous week, to create strong trustworthy, weak trustworthy, weak untrustworthy, and strong untrustworthy companies. Participants made faster, more accurate decisions for companies carrying stronger evidence (e.g., faces rated more extremely). Companies with more extreme ratings yielded faster decisions for untrustworthy than trustworthy companies, consistent with a negativity bias. Electrophysiological data revealed that amplitude of the P1 and P3 ERP components, linked to attentional processes, were largest for strong trustworthy faces. This suggests that evidence counter to bias draws special attention. In addition, the first face representing each company provoked larger amplitude P1, P3, and LPP than subsequent faces. This result suggests that when making social decisions about groups of people, the first person one meets receives the most attention.</p>","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":"17 2","pages":"154-169"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39813908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social NeurosciencePub Date : 2022-04-01Epub Date: 2022-02-10DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2022.2038261
Xinuo Qiao, Kelong Lu, Jing Teng, Zhenni Gao, Ning Hao
{"title":"Middle occipital area differentially associates with malevolent versus benevolent creativity: An fNIRS investigation.","authors":"Xinuo Qiao, Kelong Lu, Jing Teng, Zhenni Gao, Ning Hao","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2022.2038261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2022.2038261","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study aimed to explore the neural correlates underlying idea generation during malevolent creativity (MC) using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). Participants were asked to solve problems during three types of creativity tasks: malevolent creativity task (MCT), benevolent creativity task (BCT), and alternative uses task (AUT). fNIRS was used to record individual cerebral activity during the tasks. The results revealed that participants demonstrated weaker neural activation in the right middle occipital area (rMO) and lower neural coupling (NC) between the right frontopolar cortex (rFPC) and rMO during MCT than during BCT and AUT. These suggest that r-MO activity and NC between the rFPC and rMO may distinguish between malevolent and benevolent forms of creative ideation.</p>","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":"17 2","pages":"127-142"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39884496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social NeurosciencePub Date : 2022-04-01Epub Date: 2022-03-08DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2022.2043432
Chiara Massullo, Angelo Panno, Giuseppe Alessio Carbone, Giacomo Della Marca, Benedetto Farina, Claudio Imperatori
{"title":"Need for cognitive closure is associated with different intra-network functional connectivity patterns: A resting state EEG study.","authors":"Chiara Massullo, Angelo Panno, Giuseppe Alessio Carbone, Giacomo Della Marca, Benedetto Farina, Claudio Imperatori","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2022.2043432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2022.2043432","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Need for Cognitive Closure (NCC) is a construct referring to the desire for predictability, unambiguity and firm answers to issues. Neuroscientific literature about NCC processes has mainly focused on task-related brain activity. According to the Triple Network model (TN), the main aim of the current study was to investigate resting state (RS) electroencephalographic (EEG) intra-network dynamics associated with NCC. Fifty-two young adults (39 females) were enrolled and underwent EEG recordings during RS. Functional connectivity analysis was computed through exact Low-Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography (eLORETA) software. Our results showed that higher levels of NCC were associated with both i) decreased alpha EEG connectivity within the Central Executive Network (CEN), and ii) increased delta connectivity within the Default Mode Network (DMN). No significant correlations were observed between NCC and functional connectivity in the Salience Network (SN). Our data would seem to suggest that high levels of NCC are characterized by a specific communication pattern within the CEN and the DMN during RS. These neurophysiological patterns might reflect several typical NCC-related cognitive characteristics (e.g., lower flexibility and preference for habitual and rigid response schemas).</p>","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":"17 2","pages":"143-153"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39633063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social NeurosciencePub Date : 2022-04-01Epub Date: 2022-02-13DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2022.2038262
Carolyn L Hafer, Meghan Weissflog, Caroline E Drolet, Sidney J Segalowitz
{"title":"The relation between belief in a just world and early processing of deserved and undeserved outcomes: An ERP study.","authors":"Carolyn L Hafer, Meghan Weissflog, Caroline E Drolet, Sidney J Segalowitz","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2022.2038262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2022.2038262","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We used event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine how quickly people in general, and certain people in particular, process deservingness-relevant information. Female university students completed individual difference measures, including individual differences in the belief in a just world (BJW), a belief that people get what they deserve. They then read stories in which an outcome was deserved, undeserved, or neither deserved nor undeserved (i.e., \"neutral\") while their ERPs were recorded with scalp electrodes. We found no overall differentiation between early ERP responses (<300 ms post-stimulus onset) to deserved, undeserved, and neutral outcomes. However, BJW correlated with the difference between early ERP responses to these forms of information (<i>r</i>s from |.44| to |.61|; <i>p</i>s from .018 to < .001). The early nature of our effects (e.g., 96 ms after stimulus onset) suggests individual differences in socially-relevant information processing that begins before conscious evaluation of the stimuli. Potential underlying processes include automatic attention to schema-relevant information and to unexpected (and therefore salient) information and automatic processing of belief-consistent information. Our research underscores the importance of the concept of deservingness in human information processing as well as the utility of ERP technology and robust statistical analyses in investigations of complex social stimuli.</p>","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":"17 2","pages":"95-116"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39590366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cardiac deceleration following positive and negative feedback is influenced by competence-based social status","authors":"Sarah Boukarras, S. Garfinkel, H. Critchley","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2022.2050295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2022.2050295","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Previous studies indicate that neurophysiological signatures of feedback processing might be enhanced when participants are assigned a low-status position. Error commission and negative feedback can evoke responses in the peripheral (autonomic) nervous system including heart rate deceleration. We conducted an exploratory study to investigate whether such activity can be modulated by the participant’s social status in a competence-based hierarchy. Participants were engaged in a cooperative time estimation task with two same-gender confederates. On each trial, they were provided with positive or negative feedback depending on their time estimation performance. Their social status varied during the task, so that they were either at the top (high-status) or at the bottom (low-status) of the hierarchy in different blocks. Results showed that cardiac deceleration was significantly modulated by feedback valence in the high-status but not in the low-status condition. We interpret this result as an increased activation of the performance monitoring system elicited by the desire to maintain a high-status position in an unstable hierarchy. In this vein, negative feedback might be processed as an aversive stimulus that signals a threat to the acquired status.","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":"17 1","pages":"170 - 180"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46040755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fereshteh Mohammadzaheri, L. Koegel, Z. Soleymani, R. Khosrowabadi, E. Bakhshi
{"title":"Neural correlates of enhancing question asking and initiations in children with autism spectrum disorders: A Randomized Clinical Trial","authors":"Fereshteh Mohammadzaheri, L. Koegel, Z. Soleymani, R. Khosrowabadi, E. Bakhshi","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2022.2054858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2022.2054858","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) demonstrate challenges in various areas of social communication. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) targeting question-asking on brain activity in twenty 6–12-year-old autistic boys, using a Randomized Clinical Trial (RCT) design. Verbal children, diagnosed with autism, who lacked question asking in their communication were matched based on age and mean length utterance (MLU) and were randomly placed in either PRT intervention or treatment as usual (TAU) groups. Sessions were individually administered, lasting for 60 minutes 3 days a week for a two-month period. All children were tested before and after intervention to assess behavioral areas (questions, general communicative skills, and MLU) and both groups underwent electroencephalography for 10 minutes in open and closed eye resting-state conditions to assess neural correlates. Data were analyzed using covariance analysis and post-hoc using Mann-Whitney and Wilcoxon methods. Significant behavioral improvements in the PRT group were observed after intervention that correlated with changes in electroencephalography (EEG) oscillations at several brain regions compared to the TAU group. The results of this study support other studies suggesting collateral neural changes following the PRT.","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":"17 1","pages":"181 - 192"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48700696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social NeurosciencePub Date : 2022-02-01Epub Date: 2022-02-07DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2022.2032326
Kathrin Rothermich, Sungwoo Ahn, Moritz Dannhauer, Marc D Pell
{"title":"Social appropriateness perception of dynamic interactions.","authors":"Kathrin Rothermich, Sungwoo Ahn, Moritz Dannhauer, Marc D Pell","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2022.2032326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2022.2032326","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current study explored the judgment of communicative appropriateness while processing a dialogue between two individuals. All stimuli were presented as audio-visual as well as audio-only vignettes and 24 young adults reported their social impression (appropriateness) of literal, blunt, sarcastic, and teasing statements. On average, teasing statements were rated as more appropriate when processing audio-visual statements compared to the audio-only version of a stimuli, while sarcastic statements were judged as less appropriate with additional visual information. These results indicate a rejection of the Tinge Hypothesis for audio-visual vignettes while confirming it for the reduced, audio-only counterparts. We also analyzed time-frequency EEG data of four frequency bands that have been related to language processing: alpha, beta, theta and low gamma. We found desynchronization in the alpha band literal versus nonliteral items, confirming the assumption that the alpha band reflects stimulus complexity. The analysis also revealed a power increase in the theta, beta and low gamma band, especially when comparing blunt and nonliteral statements in the audio-only condition. The time-frequency results corroborate the prominent role of the alpha and theta bands in language processing and offer new insights into the neural correlates of communicative appropriateness and social aspects of speech perception.</p>","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":"17 1","pages":"37-57"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39721858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social NeurosciencePub Date : 2022-02-01Epub Date: 2022-01-26DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2022.2029559
Narcis A Marshall, Jonas Kaplan, Sarah A Stoycos, Diane Goldenberg, Hannah Khoddam, Sofia I Cárdenas, Pia Sellery, Darby Saxbe
{"title":"Stronger mentalizing network connectivity in expectant fathers predicts postpartum father-infant bonding and parenting behavior.","authors":"Narcis A Marshall, Jonas Kaplan, Sarah A Stoycos, Diane Goldenberg, Hannah Khoddam, Sofia I Cárdenas, Pia Sellery, Darby Saxbe","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2022.2029559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2022.2029559","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fathers play a critical role in parenting and in shaping child outcomes. However, the neurobiological underpinnings of successful adjustment to fatherhood have not been well-specified. Empathy and mentalizing abilities may characterize more effective fathering. These abilities may be supported by the functional connectivity (FC) of brain regions associated with social cognition and executive control. We used a seed-region-based approach to assess resting-state FC (rsFC) of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in 40 expectant fathers. We tested associations between mPFC whole-brain rsFC and fathers' self-report measures of empathy during pregnancy, as well as their ratings of father-infant bonding and fathering behaviors at six months postpartum. Stronger prenatal rsFC between the mPFC and precuneus, frontal pole, planum polare, and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) was negatively associated with self-reported empathic concern and perspective-taking, whereas mPFC rsFC with the lateral occipital cortex (LOC) was positively associated with self-reported perspective-taking. Additionally, stronger prenatal connectivity between the mPFC rsFC and the superior parietal lobule and LOC regions predicted father reports of postpartum bonding with infants, and stronger prenatal mPFC rsFC with the LOC predicted more effective postpartum parenting. This study is the first to measure rsFC in expectant fathers as a predictor of subsequent adjustment to fathering.</p>","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":"17 1","pages":"21-36"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39914468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}