Social NeurosciencePub Date : 2024-06-01Epub Date: 2024-08-11DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2024.2382771
Reuma Gadassi-Polack, Gabriela Paganini, Julia Winschel, Hadas Benisty, Jutta Joormann, Hedy Kober, Gal Mishne
{"title":"Better together: A systematic review of studies combining magnetic resonance imaging with ecological momentary assessment.","authors":"Reuma Gadassi-Polack, Gabriela Paganini, Julia Winschel, Hadas Benisty, Jutta Joormann, Hedy Kober, Gal Mishne","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2024.2382771","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17470919.2024.2382771","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social neuroscientists often use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to understand the relationship between social experiences and their neural substrates. Although MRI is a powerful method, it has several limitations in the study of social experiences, first and foremost its low ecological validity. To address this limitation, researchers have conducted multimethod studies combining MRI with Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA). However, there are no existing recommendations for best practices for conducting and reporting such studies. To address the absence of standards in the field, we conducted a systematic review of papers that combined the methods. A systematic search of peer-reviewed papers resulted in a pool of 11,558 articles. Inclusion criteria were studies in which participants completed (a) Structural or functional MRI and (b) an EMA protocol that included self-report. Seventy-one papers met inclusion criteria. The following review compares these studies based on several key parameters (e.g., sample size) with the aim of determining feasibility and current standards for design and reporting in the field. The review concludes with recommendations for future research. A special focus is given to the ways in which the two methods were combined analytically and suggestions for novel computational methods that could further advance the field of social neuroscience.</p>","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"151-167"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11511639/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141917903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social NeurosciencePub Date : 2024-06-01Epub Date: 2024-08-22DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2024.2390849
Todd A Armstrong, Danielle L Boisvert, Jessica Wells, Richard H Lewis, Eric M Cooke, Matthias Woeckener, Nicholas Kavish, James M Harper
{"title":"Testosterone, cortisol, and psychopathy: Further evidence with the Levenson self-report psychopathy scale and the inventory of callous unemotional traits.","authors":"Todd A Armstrong, Danielle L Boisvert, Jessica Wells, Richard H Lewis, Eric M Cooke, Matthias Woeckener, Nicholas Kavish, James M Harper","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2024.2390849","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17470919.2024.2390849","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current study explored associations between testosterone, cortisol, and both the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (LSRPS) and the Inventory of Callous Unemotional (ICU) traits. Data were gathered from a relatively large sample of university students (<i>n</i> = 522) and analyses considered direct and interactive associations between hormones and psychopathic traits, as well as interactions between these associations and the time of day at which samples were gathered and the sex of participants. Baseline cortisol had a negative association with LSRPS primary psychopathy scores. In addition, baseline cortisol interacted with the time of day in association with LSRPS total scores. Simple slopes analyses indicated cortisol had a negative association with LSRPS total scores in the morning but not the afternoon. Interactions among hormone measures were not statistically significant. There was also no evidence for the moderation of associations between hormones and psychopathic traits by sex.</p>","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"168-180"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142019311","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":"Distinct neural correlates of accuracy and bias in the perception of facial emotion expressions.","authors":"Despina Antypa, Konstantinos Kafetsios, Panagiotis Simos, Marina Kyvelea, Emmanouela Kosteletou, Thomas Maris, Efrosini Papadaki, Ursula Hess","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2024.2403187","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17470919.2024.2403187","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We investigated neural correlates of Emotion Recognition Accuracy (ERA) using the Assessment of Contextualized Emotions (ACE). ACE infuses context by presenting emotion expressions in a naturalistic group setting and distinguishes between accurately perceiving intended emotions (signal), and bias due to perceiving additional, secondary emotions (noise). This social perception process is argued to induce perspective taking in addition to pattern matching in ERA. Thirty participants were presented with an fMRI-compatible adaptation of the ACE consisting of blocks of neutral and emotional faces in single and group-embedded settings. Participants rated the central character's expressions categorically or using scalar scales in consequent fMRI scans. Distinct brain activations were associated with the perception of emotional vs. neutral faces in the four conditions. Moreover, accuracy and bias scores from the original ACE task performed on another day were associated with brain activation during the scalar (vs. categorical) condition for emotional (vs. neutral) faces embedded in group. These findings suggest distinct cognitive mechanisms linked to each type of emotional rating and highlight the importance of considering cognitive bias in the assessment of social emotion perception.</p>","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"215-228"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142299512","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 : 2024-06-01Epub Date: 2024-10-22DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2024.2401180
Amna Hyder, Ella Weik, Todd Handy, Christine M Tipper
{"title":"Microstate analysis reveals the temporal alignment of mirroring and mentalizing systems.","authors":"Amna Hyder, Ella Weik, Todd Handy, Christine M Tipper","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2024.2401180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2024.2401180","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of the study is to understand how Mirror Neuron System (MNS) and Mentalizing Network (MZN) interact with each other. EEG data was collected during a photo judgment task with pictures of actions or facial expressions. Participants (<i>N</i> = 30, 63% women) were asked to either identify how the shown action/expression was being performed (MNS) or what the goal or intention behind the action was (MZN). Data were analyzed using microstate analysis, source localization and Event-Related Potentials. When comparing the action types, we found early divergence between the brain states of MNS and MZN when comparing the same action type. There was temporal alignment between the start and end time of the induced microstates, among the same action type. Between different action types, the timing was slightly shifted. Temporally, there was a greater overlap between the timing of the states between networks within the same action type as compared to within networks across action types. The MNS and MZN are acting in parallel rather then subsequently and possibly feed into each other. Furthermore, the MNS and MZN do not specifically react to one action type over the other, but their activity is influenced by the action type.</p>","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":"19 3","pages":"202-214"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142511648","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 : 2024-06-01Epub Date: 2024-08-27DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2024.2391512
Pietro Depalma, Alice Mado Proverbio
{"title":"The neural representation of self, close, and famous others: An electrophysiological investigation on the social brain.","authors":"Pietro Depalma, Alice Mado Proverbio","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2024.2391512","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17470919.2024.2391512","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is well established that the Self has a unique representation in the social brain, as evident from the Self-Referential Effect (SRE). However, the timing and neural mechanisms underlying the representation of individuals with varying degrees of closeness and emotional relevance to the Self remain unclear. Twenty-two participants read 260 personality traits and decided whether they described themselves, a close friend, or an admired celebrity. A strong Self-Referential Effect (SRE) was found at behavioral, ERP, and neuroimaging levels. Three anterior ERP components were identified as sensitive to social information: a P200 (250-350 ms) responding to famous others' traits, a P600 (500-700 ms) responding to self-trait processing, and a late positivity (800-950 ms) responding to self-trait processing and close traits. Source reconstructions revealed partially overlapping but distinct neural sources for each individual. The right precuneus (bodily self) and inferior frontal areas (inner voice) were active only during self-processing, while the right medial prefrontal cortex (BA10) was consistently active across tasks, showing a robust SRE. These findings provide insights into the neural mechanisms underlying the representation of the Self in social contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"181-201"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142074347","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}
Ping Li, Chuanlin Zhu, Peiyao Geng, Weiqi He, Wenbo Luo
{"title":"Implicit induction of expressive suppression in regulation of happy crowd emotions","authors":"Ping Li, Chuanlin Zhu, Peiyao Geng, Weiqi He, Wenbo Luo","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2024.2340806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2024.2340806","url":null,"abstract":"Implicit emotion regulation provides an effective means of controlling emotions triggered by a single face without conscious awareness and effort. Crowd emotion has been proposed to be perceived as...","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140575689","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 : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2024-07-08DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2024.2376049
Emilie A Caspar, Guillaume P Pech
{"title":"Obedience to authority reduces cognitive conflict before an action.","authors":"Emilie A Caspar, Guillaume P Pech","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2024.2376049","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17470919.2024.2376049","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>How obeying orders impacts moral decision-making remains an open question, despite its significant societal implications. The goal of this study was to determine if cognitive conflict, indexed by mid-frontal theta activity observed before an action, is influenced by the context of obedience. Participants came in pairs and were assigned roles as either agent or victim. Those in the agent role could either decide freely or follow the experimenter's instructions to administer (or refrain from administering) a mildly painful electric shock to the victim in exchange for a small monetary reward. Mid-frontal theta activity was recorded before the agent made their keypress. Results indicated that mid-frontal theta activity was reduced when participants obeyed the experimenter's orders compared to when they acted of their own volition, even though the outcomes of the actions were similar. This finding suggests that obeying orders diminishes cognitive conflict preceding moral decisions that could harm another person. This study sheds light on a potential mechanism explaining how obedience can blurr morality and lessen our natural aversion to harming others.</p>","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"94-105"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141555732","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":"Distinct social behavior and inter-brain connectivity in Dyads with autistic individuals.","authors":"Quentin Moreau, Florence Brun, Anaël Ayrolles, Jacqueline Nadel, Guillaume Dumas","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2024.2379917","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17470919.2024.2379917","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is defined by distinctive socio-cognitive behaviors that deviate from typical patterns. Notably, social imitation skills appear to be particularly impacted, manifesting early on in development. This paper compared the behavior and inter-brain dynamics of dyads made up of two typically developing (TD) participants with mixed dyads made up of ASD and TD participants during social imitation tasks. By combining kinematics and EEG-hyperscanning, we show that individuals with ASD exhibited a preference for the follower rather than the lead role in imitating scenarios. Moreover, the study revealed inter-brain synchrony differences, with low-alpha inter-brain synchrony differentiating control and mixed dyads. The study's findings suggest the importance of studying interpersonal phenomena in dynamic and ecological settings and using hyperscanning methods to capture inter-brain dynamics during actual social interactions.</p>","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"124-136"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141635180","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 : 2024-04-01Epub Date: 2024-06-01DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2024.2358558
Robert J Goodman, Jordan T Quaglia, Daniel R Berry
{"title":"Uncertainty cues amplify late positive potential responses to aversive emotional stimuli.","authors":"Robert J Goodman, Jordan T Quaglia, Daniel R Berry","doi":"10.1080/17470919.2024.2358558","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17470919.2024.2358558","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Uncertainty is unavoidable, and maladaptive responses to uncertainty may underlie the etiology and maintenance of psychopathology. A general tendency to associate uncertainty with aversive consequences, a type of covariation bias, can amplify aversive emotional experiences. To address questions about uncertainty during emotion regulation, we examined the Late Positive Potential (LPP) - an electrocortical marker of attention to and appraisal of motivationally relevant emotional stimuli - during a task designed to measure the effect of covariation bias and its emotional response consequences. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while participants (<i>N</i> = 52) were presented with a pre-stimulus cue that either conveyed information about the valence of an upcoming emotional image, or left them in ambiguity. We replicated findings that demonstrate expectancy biases in a priori and online expectancies of emotion-eliciting images, as well as in a posteriori estimates for concurrence of uncertainty cues and aversive images. Moreover, we demonstrate a novel finding that uncertainty cues amplify the LPP in response to subsequent aversive emotional stimuli. These findings advance research by conjoining existing emotion regulation research on the LPP with study of the effects of uncertainty on emotional appraisal and highlight the importance of accounting for stimulus uncertainty in emotion regulation research.</p>","PeriodicalId":49511,"journal":{"name":"Social Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"57-68"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141186962","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}