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Positively Biased Processing of Self-Relevant Social Feedback

Christoph W. Korn, Kristin Prehn, Soyoung Q. Park, Henrik Walter and Hauke R. Heekeren
Journal of Neuroscience 21 November 2012, 32 (47) 16832-16844; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3016-12.2012
Christoph W. Korn
1Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany,
2Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany,
3Dahlem Institute for Neuroimaging of Emotion, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany,
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Kristin Prehn
3Dahlem Institute for Neuroimaging of Emotion, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany,
4Cluster of Excellence “Languages of Emotion,” Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany, and
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Soyoung Q. Park
1Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany,
2Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany,
3Dahlem Institute for Neuroimaging of Emotion, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany,
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Henrik Walter
2Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany,
5Department of Psychiatry, Division of Mind and Brain Research, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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Hauke R. Heekeren
1Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany,
2Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany,
3Dahlem Institute for Neuroimaging of Emotion, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany,
4Cluster of Excellence “Languages of Emotion,” Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany, and
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Abstract

Receiving social feedback such as praise or blame for one's character traits is a key component of everyday human interactions. It has been proposed that humans are positively biased when integrating social feedback into their self-concept. However, a mechanistic description of how humans process self-relevant feedback is lacking. Here, participants received feedback from peers after a real-life interaction. Participants processed feedback in a positively biased way, i.e., they changed their self-evaluations more toward desirable than toward undesirable feedback. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging we investigated two feedback components. First, the reward-related component correlated with activity in ventral striatum and in anterior cingulate cortex/medial prefrontal cortex (ACC/MPFC). Second, the comparison-related component correlated with activity in the mentalizing network, including the MPFC, the temporoparietal junction, the superior temporal sulcus, the temporal pole, and the inferior frontal gyrus. This comparison-related activity within the mentalizing system has a parsimonious interpretation, i.e., activity correlated with the differences between participants' own evaluation and feedback. Importantly, activity within the MPFC that integrated reward-related and comparison-related components predicted the self-related positive updating bias across participants offering a mechanistic account of positively biased feedback processing. Thus, theories on both reward and mentalizing are important for a better understanding of how social information is integrated into the human self-concept.

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Christoph W. Korn, Kristin Prehn, Soyoung Q. Park, Henrik Walter, Hauke R. Heekeren
Journal of Neuroscience 21 November 2012, 32 (47) 16832-16844; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3016-12.2012

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Journal of Neuroscience 21 November 2012, 32 (47) 16832-16844; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3016-12.2012
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