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Self-esteem Modulates Medial Prefrontal Cortical Responses to Evaluative Social Feedback
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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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“MFa shows activation when people consider personality characteristics about themselves or receive social feedback about themselves from others (104, 105).”
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“a well-validated paradigm that has been shown to elicit genuine experiences of social evaluation (20–23).”
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“Self-perception can be modulated by self-esteem which can influence perception of social standing and evaluations individuals make about their personal worth [Somerville et al., 2010].”
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- Authors
- Somerville, L. H., Kelley, W. M., & Heatherton, T. F.
- Affiliations
- Dartmouth College (US)
- 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
- PMC
- PMC2978246
- OpenAlex
- W2149595770
- Cited by
- 189
- References
- 83
- Citations by year
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- 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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