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Social influence in adolescence: Behavioral and neural responses to peer and expert opinion Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Fatemeh Irani, Joona Muotka, Pessi Lyyra, Tiina Parviainen, Simo Monto
Social influence plays a crucial role during the teen years, with adolescents supposedly exhibiting heightened sensitivity to their peers. In this study, we examine how social influence from differ...
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Explicit and implicit abilities in humor processing in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Pauline Gury, Maximilien Moulin, Raphaëlle Laroye, Marine Montazel, Marine Trachino, Pauline Narme, Nathalie Ehrlé
Sociocognitive impairment is well known in the relapsing-remitting form of multiple sclerosis (RR-MS). The purpose of the present study was to assess explicit and implicit humor abilities in this p...
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Influence of first-person and third-person perspectives on neural mechanisms of professional pride Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Yeon-Ju Hong, Hesun Erin Kim, Sunghyon Kyeong, Eun Joo Kim, Jae-Jin Kim
Professional pride, including self-reflection and attitude toward one’s own occupational group, induces individuals to behave in socially appropriate ways, and uniforms can encourage wearers to hav...
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Association between internet addiction, brain structure, and social capital in adolescents Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Masahiro Matsunaga, Yohsuke Ohtsubo, Keiko Ishii, Hirohito Tsuboi, Kohta Suzuki, Haruto Takagishi
Of late, internet addiction among adolescents has become a serious problem, with increased internet use. Previous research suggests that the more people become addicted to the internet, the more th...
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Desensitized gamers? Violent video game exposure and empathy for pain in adolescents – an ERP study Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Ewa Miedzobrodzka, Johanna C. van Hooff, Lydia Krabbendam, Elly A. Konijn
This Event-Related Potential (ERP) study aimed to test how habitual and short-term violent video game exposure (VVGE) may affect empathy for pain responses in adolescents. In a within-subjects desi...
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Null effect of anodal and cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on own- and other-race face recognition Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Siew Kei Kho, David Keeble, Hoo Keat Wong, Alejandro J. Estudillo
Successful face recognition is important for social interactions and public security. Although some preliminary evidence suggests that anodal and cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (t...
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Maximin principle, emotional aversion, and integrative judgment in the NIMBY context, including social dilemma and moral dilemma: The roles of the amygdala, angular gyrus, and ventromedial prefrontal cortex Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Hiroshi Nonami, Kentaro Oba, Yutaka Tashiro, Toshiaki Aoki, Shoji Ohtomo
Public facilities that have NIMBY (not in my backyard) structure involve both a social dilemma, in which individuals’ decisions to prevent the worst outcomes for themselves undermine the public int...
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Culture shapes spontaneous brain dynamics – shared versus idiosyncratic neural features among Chinese versus Canadian subjects Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Jiawei Xu, Soren Wainio-Theberge, Annemarie Wolff, Pengmin Qin, Yihui Zhang, Xuan She, Yingying Wang, Angelika Wolman, David Smith, Julia Ignaszewski, Joelle Choueiry, Verner Knott, Andrea Scalabrini, Georg Northoff
Environmental factors, such as culture, are known to shape individual variation in brain activity including spontaneous activity, but less is known about their population-level effects. Eastern and...
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The neurobiological map of theory of mind and pragmatic communication in autism Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Lauren Duvall, Kaitlyn E. May, Abby Waltz, Rajesh K. Kana
Children with autism often have difficulty with Theory of Mind (ToM), the ability to infer mental states, and pragmatic skills, the contextual use of language. Neuroimaging research suggests ToM a...
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Prospective associations between maternal mind-mindedness, child theory of mind, and brain morphology in school-aged children Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Elie YuTong Guo, Élizabel Leblanc, Fanny Dégeilh, Miriam H. Beauchamp, Annie Bernier
Mentalizing is defined as the ability to attribute mental states to oneself and others. In the context of parental behavior, parents’ tendency to comment on their child’s mental activities refers t...
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Recent neural advances in studies on theory of mind and autism Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Annabel D. Nijhof
Despite initial evidence in favor of the Theory of Mind (ToM) theory of autism, results have been mixed, presumably because the literature is highly heterogeneous. Researchers have increasingly tur...
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The role of outgroup homogeneity and the neurodynamics of the frontal cortex during beauty comparisons Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 George Zacharopoulos, Katharina Ohmann, Niklas Ihssen, Gayannee Kedia, Thomas Mussweiler, David E.J. Linden
The distance effect states that the closer two compared magnitudes (e.g., two numbers, physical attractiveness in two faces), the more difficult the comparison, and the greater the activity of the ...
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Neural signatures to prosocial and antisocial interactions in young infants Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Victoria Licht, Margaret Addabbo, Elena Nava, Chiara Turati
Preverbal infants appear to be more attracted by prosocial characters and events, as typically assessed using preferential looking times and manual choice. However, infants’ neural correlates of ob...
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Social cognition in hyperkinetic movement disorders: a systematic review Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Gaetano Rizzo, Davide Martino, Laura Avanzino, Alessio Avenanti, Carmelo Mario Vicario
Numerous lines of research indicate that our social brain involves a network of cortical and subcortical brain regions that are responsible for sensing and controlling body movements. However, it r...
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To bridge or not to bridge: Moral Judgement in Cocaine Use Disorders, a case-control study on human morality Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 A Mosca, A Miuli, G Mancusi, S Chiappini, G Stigliano, A De Pasquale, G Di Petta, G Bubbico, A Pasino, M Pettorruso, G Martinotti
ABSTRACT Background In the “Dual-Process theory”, morality is characterized by the interaction between an automatic-emotional process, mediated by the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC) and linked to personal-deontological decisions, and a rational-conscious one, mediated by the Dorso-Lateral Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC) and linked to impersonal-utilitarian decisions. These areas are altered by chronic use
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An examination of mindfulness on Mu suppression and pain empathy and its relation to trait empathy Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 L. Jelsone-Swain, M. Settepani, K. McMullen, J. Stafford, B. Cho
There have been multiple benefits reported from the practice of mindfulness meditation. Recently social functioning, including empathy, has emerged as one such possible benefit. However, the litera...
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Does Tactile Stimulation of the Face Affect the Processing of Other Faces? Neural and Behavioural Effects of Facial Touch Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Evrim Gülbetekin, Seda Bayraktar, Deniz Kantar Gül, Ece Varlık Özsoy, Muhammed Nurullah Er, Enes Altun, Arda Fidanci
Abstract The integration of vision and touch is proposed as a critical factor for processing one’s own body and the bodies of others in the brain. We hypothesise that tactile stimulation on an individual’s face may change the ability to process the faces of other, but not the processing of other visual images. We aimed to determine if facial touch increased the activity of the mirror system and face
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Sorry, not sorry: Unpopular individuals report but don’t display empathy and prosocial behaviors Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Amber R. Massey-Abernathy, CaSandra L. Swearingen-Stanbrough, Rebekkah Wall
ABSTRACT The resource control theory postulates that the combination of prosocial strategies and coercive strategies are useful in gaining and maintaining resources that allow one to be perceived popular within society. Often prosocial behaviors appear in conjunction with empathy. The social-reconnection hypothesis suggest that prosocial behaviors might be executed when an individual fears they are
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Loss of Free will in the Iranian Criminal Justice System: Interdisciplinary Analysis of Law and Neuroscience Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Arian Petoft, Mahmoud Abbasi, Alireza Zali
ABSTRACT Today, with the development of neuroscience and the discovery of new secrets of the brain, the social sciences, including law, have made significant progress with the help of new findings in this science. One of the significant applications of neuroscience in modern criminal law is the explanation of the neurological dimensions of human free will, which in addition to creating a profound and
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Predicting Narcissistic Personality Traits from Brain and Psychological Features: A Supervised Machine Learning Approach Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Khanitin Jornkokgoud, Teresa Baggio, Md Faysal, Richard Bakiaj, Peera Wongupparaj, Remo Job, Alessandro Grecucci
ABSTRACT Narcissism is a multifaceted construct often linked to pathological conditions whose neural correlates are still poorly understood. Previous studies have reported inconsistent findings related to the neural underpinnings of narcissism, probably due to methodological limitations such as the low number of participants or the use of mass univariate methods. The present study aimed to overcome
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Mother-child inter-brain synchrony during a mutual visual search task: A study of feedback valence and role Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Fred Atilla, Maryam Alimardani, Taishi Kawamoto, Kazuo Hiraki
Parent and child have been shown to synchronize their behaviors and physiology during social interactions. This synchrony is an important marker of their relationship quality and subsequently the c...
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Hypocortisolemic reactivity to acute social stress among lonely young women Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Madison E. Stout, Bryant H. Keirns, Misty A.W. Hawkins
ABSTRACT We examined biopsychosocial stress of acute social pain in relation to chronic loneliness. Hypotheses: 1) Cyberball exclusion (vs. inclusion) would be associated with lower cortisol reactivity to a speech task, and 2) loneliness would moderate the relationship between social exclusion and cortisol reactivity to a speech task, such that higher loneliness would be linked to lower cortisol. Participants
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Does emotion regulation network mediate the effect of social network on psychological distress among older adults? Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Ratanpriya Sharma, Kaitlyn Dillon, Stefan Edward Emanuel Williams, Roger McIntosh
ABSTRACT Socio-emotional interactions are integral for regulating emotions and buffering psychological distress. Social neuroscience perspectives on aging suggest that empathetic interpersonal interactions are supported by the activation of brain regions involved in regulating negative affect. The current study tested whether resting state functional connectivity of a network of brain regions activated
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How unexpected events are processed in theory of mind regions: A conceptual replication Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Ryan M. McManus, James A Dungan, Kevin Jiang, Liane Young
ABSTRACT Recent research in social neuroscience has postulated that Theory of Mind (ToM) regions play a role in processing social prediction error (PE: the difference between what was expected and what was observed). Here, we tested whether PE signal depends on the type of prior information people use to make predictions – an agent’s prior mental states (e.g., beliefs, desires, preferences) or an agent’s
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Hippocampus links perceived social support with self-esteem Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Huanhua Lu, Xueting Li, Yinan Wang, Yiying Song, Jia Liu
ABSTRACT Self-esteem is an important psychological resource with adaptive values, and numerous investigations have revealed that self-esteem is influenced by perceived social support. However, the potential neural basis linking perceived social support with self-esteem remains unclear. Therefore, we used voxel-based morphometry to explore whether the hippocampus and amygdala function as the neuroanatomical
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Dissociating neural sensitivity to target identity and mental state content type during inferences about other minds Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Ana Defendini, Adrianna C. Jenkins
ABSTRACT Predicting and inferring what other people think and feel (mentalizing) is central to social interaction. Since the discovery of the brain’s “mentalizing network,” fMRI studies have probed the lines along which the activity of different regions in this network converges and dissociates. Here, we use fMRI meta-analysis to aggregate across stimuli, paradigms, and contrasts from past studies
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Communicative intentions automatically hold attention – evidence from event-related potentials Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Ł Okruszek, N Rutkowska, N Jakubowska, S. Mąka
ABSTRACT Numerous studies show that social cues are processed preferentially by the human visual system and that perception of communicative intentions, particularly those self-directed, attracts and biases attention. However, it is still unclear when in the temporal hierarchy of visual processing communicative cues exert impact on perception and whether their effects are automatic or volitional. Therefore
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Impact of social knowledge about the speaker on irony understanding: Evidence from neural oscillations Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Maud Champagne-Lavau, Deirdre Bolger, Madelyne Klein
ABSTRACT The aim of the present study was to explore neuronal oscillatory activity during a task of irony understanding. In this task, we manipulated implicit information about the speaker such as occupation stereotypes (i.e., sarcastic versus non-sarcastic). These stereotypes are social knowledge that influence the extent to which the speaker’s ironic intent is understood. Time-frequency analyses
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Predicting change in neural activity during social exclusion in late childhood: The role of past peer experiences Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 M. Hollarek, M. van Buuren, J. S. Asscheman, A. H. N. Cillessen, S. Koot, P. A. C. van Lier, L. Krabbendam
ABSTRACT A painful experience affecting many children is social exclusion. The current study is a follow-up study, investigating change in neural activity during social exclusion as a function of peer preference. Peer preference was defined as the degree to which children are preferred by their peers and measured using peer nominations in class during four consecutive years for 34 boys. Neural activity
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Event-related correlates of compassion for social pain Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-05 Katie Rodriguez, Itzia Plascencia Ibarra, Anthony Musick, Jonathan Hoerr, Daniela Napoli, Daniel R. Berry
ABSTRACT Ostracism – being intentionally excluded – is painful, and when experienced vicariously, it elicits self-reported and neural responses correlated with compassion. This study examines event-related potentials (ERPs) in response to vicarious ostracism in a computer-simulated ball-toss game, called Cyberball. Participants observed three ostensible players at other universities play two rounds
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Neural correlates of attentional orienting with neutral and fearful gaze cues in 12-month-olds Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Reiko Matsunaka, Kazuo Hiraki
ABSTRACT Infants use information on gaze direction and facial expressions for social referencing when encountering various objects in their environment. However, it remains unclear how these social cues influence attentional orienting in infants. Using event-related potentials (ERPs), we investigated the neural correlates of attentional orienting cued by an averted gaze with neutral and fearful expressions
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Self-concept clarity and processing self-relevant information: An event-related potential study Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Tomasz Jankowski, Paweł Stróżak, Dariusz Zapała, Natalia Kopiś-Posiej, Paweł Augustynowicz, Paulina Iwanowicz
ABSTRACT Self-concept clarity (SCC) refers to the extent to which self-beliefs are clearly and confidently defined, internally consistent, and stable. While there is an abundance of research showing an association between SCC, well-being, and effective self-regulation, there is little knowledge about how SCC relates to basic cognitive processes such as attention and memory. Drawing on the attentional
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Emojis vs. facial expressions: an electrical neuroimaging study on perceptual recognition Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Linda Dalle Nogare, Alice Mado Proverbio
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to investigate the neural underpinnings and the time course of emoji recognition through the recording of event-related potentials in 51 participants engaged in a categorization task involving an emotional word paradigm. Forty-eight happy, sad, surprised, disgusted, fearful, angry emojis, and as many facial expressions, were used as stimuli. Behavioural data showed
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Electrophysiology of interoception: parietal posterior area supports social synchronization Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Michela Balconi, Laura Angioletti
Abstract The effect of explicit interoception manipulation on electrophysiological (EEG) patterns concurrent with an interpersonal motor synchronization task with a social purpose was investigated in this study. Thirty healthy individuals executed a task involving behavioral motor synchronization with a social framing in both focus (conceived as the focus on the breath for a specific time interval)
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Investigating the neural bases of social comparison in aging Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Janelle N. Beadle
Published in Social Neuroscience (Vol. 17, No. 6, 2022)
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An fMRI-study of leading and following using rhythmic tapping Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Lykke Silfwerbrand, Yousuke Ogata, Natsue Yoshimura, Yasuharu Koike, Malin Gingnell
ABSTRACT Leading and following is about synchronizing and joining actions in accordance with the differences that the leader and follower roles provide. The neural reactivity representing these roles was measured in an explorative fMRI-study, where two persons lead and followed each other in finger tapping using simple, individual, pre-learnt rhythms. All participants acted both as leader and follower
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Association between social comparison orientation and hippocampal properties in older adults: A multimodal MRI study Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Hikaru Sugimoto, Takuya Sekiguchi, Mihoko Otake-Matsuura
ABSTRACT Social comparison orientation (SCO) refers to the tendency to compare oneself with others and has two distinct dimensions: one about opinions and the other about abilities. Although dissociable neural mechanisms underlying the two dimensions of social comparison can be assumed, little is known about how each dimension of SCO is associated with cognitive and brain health among older adults
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Parent–child dyads with greater parenting stress exhibit less synchrony in posterior areas and more synchrony in frontal areas of the prefrontal cortex during shared play Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Atiqah Azhari, Andrea Bizzego, Gianluca Esposito
ABSTRACT Parent–child dyads who are mutually attuned to each other during social interactions display interpersonal synchrony that can be observed behaviorally and through the temporal coordination of brain signals called interbrain synchrony. Parenting stress undermines the quality of parent–child interactions. However, no study has examined synchrony in relation to parenting stress during everyday
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Examining implicit neural bias against vaccine hesitancy Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Annika Hautala, Annika Kluge, Boaz Hameiri, Niloufar Zebarjadi, Jonathan Levy
ABSTRACT COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world in many ways. At the societal level, disparities in attitudes toward the COVID-19 vaccines have led to polarization and intense animosity. In this study, we use a novel paradoxical thinking intervention that was found to be effective in difficult and violent intergroup contexts, and measure its effectiveness in a novel unobtrusive way in an important
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Community-level explicit racial prejudice potentiates whites’ neural responses to black faces: A spatial meta-analysis Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Mark L. Hatzenbuehler, Katie A. Mclaughlin, David G. Weissman, Mina Cikara
ABSTRACT We evaluated the hypothesis that neural responses to racial out-group members vary systematically based on the level of racial prejudice in the surrounding community. To do so, we conducted a spatial meta-analysis, which included a comprehensive set of studies (k = 22; N = 481). Specifically, we tested whether community-level racial prejudice moderated neural activation to Black (vs. White)
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A functional neuroimaging investigation of Moral Foundations Theory Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Ari Khoudary, Eleanor Hanna, Kevin O’Neill, Vijeth Iyengar, Scott Clifford, Roberto Cabeza, Felipe De Brigard, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
ABSTRACT Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) posits that the human mind contains modules (or “foundations”) that are functionally specialized to moralize unique dimensions of the social world: Authority, Loyalty, Purity, Harm, Fairness, and Liberty. Despite this strong claim about cognitive architecture, it is unclear whether neural activity during moral reasoning exhibits this modular structure. Here,
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Does the TPJ fit it all? Representational similarity analysis of different forms of mentalizing Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-30 Karolina Golec-Staśkiewicz, Agnieszka Pluta, Jakub Wojciechowski, Łukasz Okruszek, Maciej Haman, Joanna Wysocka, Tomasz Wolak
ABSTRACT Mentalizing is the key socio-cognitive ability. Its heterogeneous structure may result from a variety of forms of mental state inference, which may be based on lower-level processing of cues encoded in the observable behavior of others, or rather involve higher-level computations aimed at understanding another person’s perspective. Here we aimed to investigate the representational content
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Social reward anticipation in infants as revealed by event-related potentials Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Mitsuhiko Ishikawa, Shoji Itakura
ABSTRACT Infants engage in gaze interaction from the early stage of life. Emerging studies suggest that infants may expect social reward of shared attention before looking to the same object with another person. However, it was unknown about the neural responses during the anticipation of social rewards before shared attention in infants. We tested infants’ reward anticipations in the gaze cueing situation
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Predictive models for social functioning in healthy young adults: A machine learning study integrating neuroanatomical, cognitive, and behavioral data Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Kathleen Miley, Martin Michalowski, Fang Yu, Ethan Leng, Barbara J. McMorris, Sophia Vinogradov
ABSTRACT Poor social functioning is an emerging public health problem associated with physical and mental health consequences. Developing prognostic tools is critical to identify individuals at risk for poor social functioning and guide interventions. We aimed to inform prediction models of social functioning by evaluating models relying on bio-behavioral data using machine learning. With data from
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Mirror neurons and empathy-related regions in psychopathy: Systematic review, meta-analysis, and a working model Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Julio C. Penagos-Corzo, Michelle Cosio van-Hasselt, Daniela Escobar, Rubén A. Vázquez-Roque, Gonzalo Flores
ABSTRACT Mirror neurons have been associated with empathy. People with psychopathic traits present low levels of empathy. To analyze this, a systematic review of fMRI studies of people with psychopathic traits during an emotional facial expression processing task was performed. The regions of interest were structures associated with the mirror neuron system: ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC),
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Brain dynamics of recommendation-based social influence on preference change: A magnetoencephalography study Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Fatemeh Irani, Sini Maunula, Joona Muotka, Matti Leppäniemi, Maria Kukkonen, Simo Monto, Tiina Parviainen
ABSTRACT People change their preferences when exposed to others’ opinions. We examine the neural basis of how peer feedback influences an individual’s recommendation behavior. In addition, we investigate if the personality trait of ‘agreeableness’ modulates behavioral change and neural responses. In our experiment, participants with low and high agreeableness indicated their degree of recommendation
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Financial incentives facilitate stronger neural computation of prosocial decisions in lower empathic adult females Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Vassil Iotzov, Anne Saulin, Jochen Kaiser, Shihui Han, Grit Hein
ABSTRACT Financial incentives are commonly used to motivate behaviors. However, there is also evidence that incentives can impede the behavior they are supposed to foster, for example, documented by a decrease in blood donations if a financial incentive is offered. Based on these findings, previous studies assumed that prosocial motivation is shaped by incentives. However, so far, there is no direct
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The degree of mu rhythm suppression in women is associated with presence of children as well as empathy and anxiety level Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Ekaterina D Karimova, Alena S Gulyaeva, Nikita S Katermin
ABSTRACT In experiments on observing and performing social gestures, the level of mu rhythm suppression is associated with the activity of the mirror neuron system (MNS), which is responsible for the perception and understanding of nonverbal signals in social communication. In turn, while MNS activity may be associated primarily with empathy, it is also associated with other psychological and demographic
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When humor is a matter of heart: Effects on emotional state and interbeat interval Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Mirella Manfredi, Letícia Yumi Nakao Morello, Lucas M. Marques, Paulo S. Boggio
ABSTRACT Previous studies demonstrated that exposure to humor has beneficial effects on psychological well-being. In the present work, we investigated the behavioral and psychophysiological effects of different types of humor on psychological well-being and on the performance during the execution of a stressful cognitive task. To this aim, we examined the behavioral and psychophysiological effects
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Dissociable effects of acute versus cumulative violent video game exposure on the action simulation circuit in university students Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Shannon A. H. Compton, Mary Ritchie, Lindsay Oliver, Elizabeth Finger, Derek G. V. Mitchell
ABSTRACT There is an ongoing debate as to whether violent video game exposure (VGE) has a negative impact on social functioning. This debate continues in part because of methodological concerns and the paucity of identifiable neurocognitive mechanisms. Also, little attention has been given to how specific personality characteristics may influence susceptibility to the purported effects. Using a combined
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Empathy, defending, and functional connectivity while witnessing social exclusion Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Theresa A. McIver, Wendy Craig, Rachael L. Bosma, Julian Chiarella, Janell Klassen, Aislinn Sandre, Sarah Goegan, Linda Booij
ABSTRACT Peers are present for most bullying episodes. Peers who witness bullying can play an important role in either stopping or perpetuating the behavior. Defending can greatly benefit victimized peers. Empathy is strongly associated with defending. Yet, less is known about defenders’ neural response to witnessing social distress, and how this response may relate to the link between empathy and
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Population variation in social brain morphology: Links to socioeconomic status and health disparity Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Nathania Suryoputri, Hannah Kiesow, Danilo Bzdok
ABSTRACT Health disparity across layers of society involves reasons beyond the healthcare system. Socioeconomic status (SES) shapes people’s daily interaction with their social environment and is known to impact various health outcomes. Using generative probabilistic modeling, we investigate health satisfaction and complementary indicators of socioeconomic lifestyle in the human social brain. In a
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Neural mechanisms of intergroup exclusion and retaliatory aggression Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Emily N. Lasko, Abigale C. Dagher, Samuel J. West, David S. Chester
ABSTRACT Aggression occurs frequently and severely between rival groups. Although there has been much study into the psychological and socio-ecological determinants of intergroup aggression, the neuroscience of this phenomenon remains incomplete. To examine the neural correlates of aggression directed at outgroup (versus ingroup) targets, we recruited 35 healthy young male participants who were current
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Sensorimotor anticipation of others’ actions in real-world and video settings: Modulation by level of engagement? Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Manon A. Krol, Tjeerd Jellema
ABSTRACT Electroencephalography (EEG) studies investigating social cognition have used both video and real-world stimuli, often without a strong reasoning as to why one or the other was chosen. Video stimuli can be selected for practical reasons, while naturalistic real-world stimuli are ecologically valid. The current study investigated modulatory effects on EEG mu (8–13 Hz) suppression, directly
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Maternal socioeconomic disadvantage, neural function during volitional emotion regulation, and parenting Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Christian G. Capistrano, Leah A. Grande, Kateri McRae, K. Luan Phan, Pilyoung Kim
ABSTRACT The transition to becoming a mother involves numerous emotional challenges, and the ability to effectively keep negative emotions in check is critical for parenting. Evidence suggests that experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage interferes with parenting adaptations and alters neural processes related to emotion regulation. The present study examined whether socioeconomic disadvantage is associated
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Neural network involvement for religious experiences in worship measured by EEG microstate analysis Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Yoshija Walter, Thomas Koenig
ABSTRACT Not much is known about large-scale brain activation patterns in religious states of mind and previous studies have not set an emphasis on experience. The present study investigated the phenomenon of religious experiences through microstate analysis, and it was the first neurocognitive research to tackle the dimension of experience directly. Hence, a total of 60 evangelical Christians participated
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The role of contextual information in a virtual trolly problem: A psychophysiological investigation Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-21 Matthew T. Richesin, Debora R. Baldwin, Lahai A. M. Wicks
ABSTRACT Trolley problems have persisted as a popular method to examine moral decision-making in the face of many criticisms. One such criticism is that thought experiments provide unrealistically abundant contextual information, leading to mental simulation. Recent work utilizing virtual reality technology has reduced contextual information with mixed results. However, this work has not departed entirely
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Medial prefrontal activity during self-other judgments is modulated by relationship need fulfillment Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Stefano I. Di Domenico, Marc A. Fournier, Achala H. Rodrigo, Mengxi Dong, Hasan Ayaz, Richard M. Ryan, Anthony C. Ruocco
ABSTRACT The medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) plays an important role in representing semantic self-knowledge. Studies comparing semantic self-judgments with judgments of close others suggest that interpersonal closeness may influence the degree to which the MPFC differentiates self and other. We used optical neuroimaging to examine if support for competence, relatedness, and autonomy from relationship
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Facial attractiveness is more associated with individual warmth than with competence: Behavioral and neural evidence Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Mengxue Lan, Maoying Peng, Xiaolin Zhao, Haopeng Chen, Yadong Liu, Juan Yang
ABSTRACT Individuals appear to infer others’ psychological characteristics according to facial attractiveness and these psychological characteristics can be classified into two categories in social cognition, that is, warmth and competence. However, which category of psychological characteristic is more associated with face attractiveness and its neural mechanisms have not been explored. To address
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“We will be in touch”. A neuroscientific assessment of remote vs. face-to-face job interviews via EEG hyperscanning Soc. Neurosci. (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-24 Michela Balconi, Federico Cassioli
ABSTRACT In the last decades, improving remote communications in companies has been a compelling issue. With the outspread of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, this phenomenon has undergone an acceleration. Despite this, little to no research, considering neurocognitive and emotional systems, was conducted on job interviews, a critical organizational phase that significantly contributes to a company's long-term