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Self-esteem Modulates Medial Prefrontal Cortical Responses to Evaluative Social Feedback

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Somerville, L. H., Kelley, W. M., Heatherton, T. F.·2010·Cerebral Cortex

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Self-esteem is a facet of personality that influences perception of social standing and modulates the salience of social acceptance and rejection. As such, self-esteem may bias neural responses to positive and negative social feedback across individuals. During functional magnetic resonance imaging scanning, participants (n = 42) engaged in a social evaluation task whereby they ostensibly received feedback from peers indicating they were liked or disliked. Results demonstrated that individuals with low self-esteem believed that they received less positive feedback from others and showed enhanced activity to positive versus negative social feedback in the ventral anterior cingulate cortex/medial prefrontal cortex (vACC/mPFC). By contrast, vACC/mPFC activity was insensitive to positive versus negative feedback in individuals with high self-esteem, and these individuals consistently overestimated the amount of positive feedback received from peers. Voxelwise analyses supported these findings; lower self-esteem predicted a linear increase in vACC/mPFC response to positive versus negative social feedback. Taken together, the present findings propose a functional role for the vACC/mPFC in representing the salience of social feedback and shaping perceptions of relative social standing.

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Authors: Somerville, L. H., Kelley, W. M., & Heatherton, T. F.
Affiliations: Dartmouth College (US)
ORCID: Somerville, L. H.
Heatherton, T. F.
Venue: Cerebral Cortex
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published: 2010-03-29
Volume: 20
Issue: 12
Pages: 3005-3013
ISSN: 1047-3211 (ISSN-L)
1460-2199
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq049
PMC: PMC2978246
OpenAlex: W2149595770
Cited by: 189
References: 83
Citations by year: 2026: 9 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 24 · 2014: 17 · 2013: 15 · 2012: 16
FWCI: 7.55
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: bronze
doi.org
Locations: Cerebral Cortex (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders: National Institute of Mental Health (K99MH087813, R01MH059282, MH059282)
National Institute on Drug Abuse (DA007274, T32DA007274)
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
Keywords: self-esteem, social feedback, medial prefrontal cortex, ventral anterior cingulate cortex, social evaluation, social acceptance, social rejection, social status, individual differences
MeSH terms: Brain Mapping, Feedback, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Self Concept, Social Perception, Prefrontal Cortex, Young Adult

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