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Scarcity mindset facilitates empathy for social pain and prosocial intention: behavioral and neural evidences.

Social cognitive and affective neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsaf015

Wanchen Li, Zilong Wei, Jun Wu, Ru Song, Jie Liu, Fang Cui

{"title":"Scarcity mindset facilitates empathy for social pain and prosocial intention: behavioral and neural evidences.","authors":"Wanchen Li, Zilong Wei, Jun Wu, Ru Song, Jie Liu, Fang Cui","doi":"10.1093/scan/nsaf015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaf015","url":null,"abstract":"Empathy for social pain encompasses both affective and cognitive responses to others' emotional reactions following negative social encounters, facilitating an understanding of their suffering and promoting prosocial behaviors. This study examined how a scarcity mindset affects empathy for social pain and prosocial intentions at behavioral and neural levels. Sixty participants were randomly assigned to either the scarcity or abundance mindset group. They viewed images of social exclusion or neutral scenarios and subsequently rated the perceived unpleasantness of the target person and their willingness to provide comfort during a stage-game paradigm. The results showed that participants in the scarcity mindset group demonstrated greater differentiation in their ratings of unpleasantness and willingness to comfort when exposed to social exclusion images compared to neutral ones, relative to the abundance mindset group. Electrophysiological data revealed that social exclusion images elicited larger late positive potential (LPP) amplitudes in the scarcity mindset group, but not in the abundance mindset group. Additionally, within the scarcity mindset group, affective empathy trait scores moderated the relationship between LPP amplitude and willingness to comfort rating. These findings highlight the amplifying effects of a scarcity mindset on empathy for social pain and prosocial intentions, and emphasize the role of affective empathy traits in this dynamic process.","PeriodicalId":94208,"journal":{"name":"Social cognitive and affective neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143054759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Interpersonal Brain Synchronization in Social Pain Contexts: An fNIRS-Based Exploration of Empathy.

Social cognitive and affective neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-01-25 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsaf003

Tao Lian, Zhibin Jiao, Juan Song, Peng Zhang

{"title":"Interpersonal Brain Synchronization in Social Pain Contexts: An fNIRS-Based Exploration of Empathy.","authors":"Tao Lian, Zhibin Jiao, Juan Song, Peng Zhang","doi":"10.1093/scan/nsaf003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaf003","url":null,"abstract":"Social pain is a common occurrence in interpersonal interactions, yet limited research has explored the neural mechanisms underlying both social pain and social pain empathy. Existing studies often focus on the neural processes of individuals experiencing pain, referred to as \"subjects,\" or those empathizing with them, known as \"observers.\" This study examines the neural mechanisms involved in the process of social pain empathy from the perspective of interpersonal brain synchronization (IBS). To do so, we employed functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to simultaneously scan the brains of both subjects and observers in social pain scenarios created using the Cyberball paradigm. The study's findings indicate that in social pain contexts, the IBS among dyads composed of subjects and observers was significantly enhanced in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) compared to non-social pain contexts. This brain region is associated with emotion regulation. Furthermore, we found that this enhancement depended on the observers' levels of rejection sensitivity. This study provides the inaugural exploration into the neural mechanisms underlying social pain empathy through the lens of IBS.","PeriodicalId":94208,"journal":{"name":"Social cognitive and affective neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143043919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Birthing Parents' Neural Response to Infant Cry: Moderating Effects of Oxytocin and Perceived Childhood Care.

Social cognitive and affective neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-01-23 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsaf010

Leah Ariana Grande, Yun Xie, Orna Zagoory-Sharon, Sarah Watamura, Tom Yeh, Ruth Feldman, Pilyoung Kim

{"title":"Birthing Parents' Neural Response to Infant Cry: Moderating Effects of Oxytocin and Perceived Childhood Care.","authors":"Leah Ariana Grande, Yun Xie, Orna Zagoory-Sharon, Sarah Watamura, Tom Yeh, Ruth Feldman, Pilyoung Kim","doi":"10.1093/scan/nsaf010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaf010","url":null,"abstract":"Individuals who perceive the caregiving they received from their parents as more caring tend to bond better with their infants and show more sensitive parenting behaviors. Early caregiving experiences are also related to differences in the functions of hormonal systems, including the oxytocinergic system. The current study examined how perceptions of childhood maternal care related to parenting behaviors, oxytocin levels, and neural responses to infant stimuli.Methods: Perceived childhood maternal care was measured using the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) for 54 first-time birthing-parents. Salivary oxytocin and observations of parenting behaviors were assessed during parent-infant play at 3.5 months postpartum. Neural activation while listening to infant cry was measured with fMRI.Results: More positive perceptions of childhood maternal care and higher oxytocin were interactively related to greater anterior cingulate activation to own infant cry. Higher oxytocin levels were associated with reduced left cuneus activation in response to own infant cry when compared with control cry and matched noise.Conclusion: Findings suggested that positive memories of childhood caregiving may have protective functions for birthing-parents with high oxytocin levels during the early postpartum period, a time when parents need to manage increased stress and form an exclusive bond with their baby.","PeriodicalId":94208,"journal":{"name":"Social cognitive and affective neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143030585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Correction to: No evidence for an association of testosterone and cortisol hair concentrations with social decision-making in a large cohort of young adults. 更正：在一大批年轻人中，没有证据表明睾酮和皮质醇浓度与社会决策有关。

Social cognitive and affective neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsaf002

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Cognitive and neural underpinnings of friend-prioritization in a perceptual matching task. 感知匹配任务中朋友优先级的认知和神经基础。

Social cognitive and affective neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-01-20 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsaf009

Tianyu Gao, Yuqing Zhou, Xinyue Pan, Wenxin Li, Shihui Han

{"title":"Cognitive and neural underpinnings of friend-prioritization in a perceptual matching task.","authors":"Tianyu Gao, Yuqing Zhou, Xinyue Pan, Wenxin Li, Shihui Han","doi":"10.1093/scan/nsaf009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaf009","url":null,"abstract":"Previous findings of better behavioral responses to self- over other-related stimuli suggest prioritized cognitive processes of self-related information. However, it is unclear whether the processing of information related to important others (e.g.,friends) may be prioritized over that related to the self in certain subpopulations and, if yes, whether friend-prioritization and self-prioritization engage distinct cognitive and neural mechanisms. We collected behavioral and electroencephalography (EEG) data from a large sample (N=1006) during learning associations between shapes and person labels (self or a friend). Analyses of response times and sensitivities revealed two subpopulations who performed better to friend-shape or self-shape associations, respectively (N=216 for each group). Drift diffusion model (DDM) analyses unraveled faster information acquisition for friend-shape (vs. self-shape) associations in the friend-prioritization group but an opposite pattern in the self-prioritization group . Trial-by-trial regression analyses of EEG data showed that the greater amplitudes of a frontal/central activity at 180-240 ms post-stimulus were correlated with faster information acquisition from friend-shape associations in the friend-prioritization group but from self-shape associations in the self-prioritization group. However, the frontal/central neural oscillations at 8-18 Hz during perceptual learning were specifically associated with speed of information acquisition from friend-shape associations in the friend-prioritization-group. Our findings provide evidence for friend-prioritization in perceptual learning in a subpopulation of adults and clarify the underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":94208,"journal":{"name":"Social cognitive and affective neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143019275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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ERP correlates of agency processing in joint action. ERP与联合行动中的代理处理相关。

Social cognitive and affective neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-01-18 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsaf006

Gethin Hughes, Peter Leslie Thomas Gooding

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Changes in interpersonal distance modulate social attention engagement: Evidence from EEG alpha band suppression. 人际距离变化调节社会注意投入：来自脑电图α波段抑制的证据。

Social cognitive and affective neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-01-18 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsaf008

Kristina Veranic, Louise Ewing, Thomas Sambrook, Elizabeth A G Watson, Mintao Zhao, Andrew P Bayliss

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Oxytocin enhances creativity specifically in approach-motivated individuals. 催产素增强了创造力，特别是在方法激励型个体中。

Social cognitive and affective neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-01-17 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsaf004

Chen Yang, Zhaoyang Guo, Liang Cheng

{"title":"Oxytocin enhances creativity specifically in approach-motivated individuals.","authors":"Chen Yang, Zhaoyang Guo, Liang Cheng","doi":"10.1093/scan/nsaf004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaf004","url":null,"abstract":"Oxytocin, a neuropeptide pivotal in social and reproductive behaviors, has recently gained attention for its potential impact on cognitive processes relevant to creativity. Yet, the direct intricate interplay between oxytocin and creativity, particularly in the context of individual differences in motivational orientations, remains poorly understood. Here, we investigated the effects of intranasal oxytocin on creative thinking in individuals characterized by varying levels of approach and avoidance motivations. The initial study, involving participants with high approach or avoidance motivation, employed the Alternative Uses Task (AUT) to assess creativity under oxytocin administration. Subsequently, the second study induced different motivational states through a recall task, aiming to validate and extend observed effects. Results revealed a significant enhancement of creativity in individuals with approach motivation following oxytocin administration, while no parallel effect was discerned in those with avoidance motivation. Aligning with behavioral findings, functional connectivity and graph theory analyses of neural data illuminated the coordinated effects of oxytocin on creativity-related neural networks. These outcomes collectively suggest that oxytocin exerts a dissociable influence on creativity contingent upon an individual's motivational tendencies, providing insights into the intricate relationship between oxytocin and human creative behavior.","PeriodicalId":94208,"journal":{"name":"Social cognitive and affective neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143019287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Neural mechanisms underlying the interactive exchange of facial emotional expressions. 面部情绪表达互动交换的神经机制。

Social cognitive and affective neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-01-17 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsaf001

Leon O H Kroczek, Andreas Mühlberger

{"title":"Neural mechanisms underlying the interactive exchange of facial emotional expressions.","authors":"Leon O H Kroczek, Andreas Mühlberger","doi":"10.1093/scan/nsaf001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaf001","url":null,"abstract":"Facial emotional expressions are crucial in face-to-face social interactions, and recent findings have highlighted their interactive nature. However, the underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear. This EEG study investigated whether the interactive exchange of facial expressions modulates socio-emotional processing. Participants (N = 41) displayed a facial emotional expression (angry, neutral, or happy) towards a virtual agent, and the agent then responded with a further emotional expression (angry or happy) or remained neutral (control condition). We assessed subjective experience (valence, arousal), facial EMG (Zygomaticus, Corrugator), and ERPs (EPN, LPP) elicited by the agent's response. Replicating previous findings, we found that an agent's happy facial expression was experienced as more pleasant and elicited increased Zygomaticus activity when participants had initiated the interaction with a happy compared to an angry expression. At the neural level, angry expressions resulted in a greater LPP than happy expressions, but only when participants directed an angry or happy, but not a neutral, expression at the agent. These findings suggest that sending an emotional expression increases salience and enhances the processing of received emotional expressions, indicating that an interactive setting alters brain responses to social stimuli.","PeriodicalId":94208,"journal":{"name":"Social cognitive and affective neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143019280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Investigating trajectories linking social cognitive capacity, bias, and social isolation using computational modeling. 利用计算模型研究连接社会认知能力、偏见和社会隔离的轨迹。

Social cognitive and affective neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-01-17 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsae088

Szymon Mąka, Marcelina Wiśniewska, Aleksandra Piejka, Marta Chrustowicz, Łukasz Okruszek

{"title":"Investigating trajectories linking social cognitive capacity, bias, and social isolation using computational modeling.","authors":"Szymon Mąka, Marcelina Wiśniewska, Aleksandra Piejka, Marta Chrustowicz, Łukasz Okruszek","doi":"10.1093/scan/nsae088","DOIUrl":"10.1093/scan/nsae088","url":null,"abstract":"Despite theoretical emphasis on loneliness affecting social information processing, empirical studies lack consensus. We previously adopted a clinical science framework to measure the association between social cognitive capacity and bias and both objective and perceived social isolation in nonclinical participants. Our prior study found that while objective social isolation is linked to both social cognitive capacity and social cognitive bias, loneliness is associated only with the latter. This study extended our previous model using a computational approach to capture implicit cognitive processes. We replicated and extended our earlier findings with a new sample of 271 participants, using neuropsychological tasks and a dot-probe paradigm that was analyzed via Drift Diffusion Model. We presented two complementary trajectories of how social cognitive bias may arise: the increased propensity to engage with salient social stimuli or a decreased information processing capacity dependent on the presence or absence of potential social threats. Furthermore, we found evidence that loneliness is associated with the time needed for perceptual processing of stimuli, both directly and indirectly, via social cognitive bias. Taken together, the complex and context-dependent nature of information processing biases observed in the current study suggests that complex and multifaceted interventions should be implemented to counter social information processing biases in lonely individuals.","PeriodicalId":94208,"journal":{"name":"Social cognitive and affective neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11756555/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142857515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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