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The human amygdala in social judgment

Adolphs, Ralph, Tranel, Daniel, Damasio, Antonio R.·1998·Nature

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Studies in animals have implicated the amygdala in emotional and social behaviours, especially those related to fear and aggression. Although lesion and functional imaging studies in humans have demonstrated the amygdala's participation in recognizing emotional facial expressions, its role in human social behaviour has remained unclear. We report here our investigation into the hypothesis that the human amygdala is required for accurate social judgments of other individuals on the basis of their facial appearance. We asked three subjects with complete bilateral amygdala damage to judge faces of unfamiliar people with respect to two attributes important in real-life social encounters: approachability and trustworthiness. All three subjects judged unfamiliar individuals to be more approachable and more trustworthy than did control subjects. The impairment was most striking for faces to which normal subjects assign the most negative ratings: unapproachable and untrustworthy looking individuals. Additional investigations revealed that the impairment does not extend to judging verbal descriptions of people. The amygdala appears to be an important component of the neural systems that help retrieve socially relevant knowledge on the basis of facial appearance.

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Authors: Adolphs, R., Tranel, D., & Damasio, A. R.
Affiliations: University of Iowa (US)
Corresponding author: Adolphs, Ralph
ORCID: Adolphs, Ralph
Tranel, Daniel
Venue: Nature
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 1998-06
Volume: 393
Issue: 6684
Pages: 470-474
ISSN: 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/30982
OpenAlex: W1634162372
Cited by: 1,125
References: 20
Citations by year: 2026: 15 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 31 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 32 · 2019: 56 · 2018: 32 · 2017: 43 · 2016: 39 · 2015: 45 · 2014: 42 · 2013: 48 · 2012: 64
FWCI: 15.50
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations: Nature (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
Keywords: amygdala, social judgment, facial appearance, approachability, trustworthiness, amygdala damage, social cognition, facial expression recognition, social evaluation, verbal description
MeSH terms: Adult, Amygdala, Brain Diseases, Cues, Facial Expression, Female, Humans, Judgment, Male, Middle Aged, Social Behavior, Visual Perception, Case-Control Studies

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