Medial prefrontal dissociations during processing of trait diagnostic and nondiagnostic person information

Mitchell, Jason P.; Cloutier, Jasmin; Banaji, Mahzarin R.; Macrae, C. Neil

doi:10.1093/scan/nsl007

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Medial prefrontal dissociations during processing of trait diagnostic and nondiagnostic person information

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Mitchell, Jason P., Cloutier, Jasmin, Banaji, Mahzarin R., Macrae, C. Neil·2006·Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Previous research has suggested that perceivers spontaneously extract trait-specific information from the behaviour of others. However, little is known about whether perceivers spontaneously engage in the same depth of social-cognitive processing for all person information or reserve such processing specifically for information that conveys diagnostic clues about another person's dispositions. Moreover, a question remains as to whether the processing of such nondiagnostic information can be affected by perceivers' explicit goal to consider another's dispositions or not. To examine processing of diagnostic and nondiagnostic social information as a function of perceivers' explicit social-cognitive goals, participants underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning while performing social (impression formation) or non-social orienting tasks using statements that conveyed either diagnostic or nondiagnostic information about the target's personality traits. Replicating two earlier studies, results identified a region of dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) that was preferentially activated by impression formation. Interestingly, no difference between trait-diagnostic and nondiagnostic information was observed when participants had the explicit goal of forming an impression, but a substantial effect of diagnosticity emerged when task instructions oriented them away from considering the target as a social agent. These results suggest that trait-nondiagnostic information is not subject to spontaneous social-cognitive processing, but that such processing may nevertheless occur when perceivers have the explicit goal to use that information to form an impression of a target.

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Trait-implying actions lead to greater activation in the mPFC than non-trait-implying actions, suggesting spontaneous trait inferences.
“Tasks that require participants to make unrelated judgments (e.g., memory tasks) suggest that trait inferences were also made spontaneously (see ''SSI'' in Table I) for trait-implying actions compared to non trait-implying actions, as the former lead to greater activation in the mPFC [Iacoboni et al., 2004; Mitchell et al., 2006; Todorov et al., 2007].”
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Authors: Mitchell, J. P., Cloutier, J., Banaji, M. R., & Macrae, C. N.
Affiliations: Dartmouth College (US)
Corresponding author: Mitchell, Jason P.
ORCID: Mitchell, Jason P.
Cloutier, Jasmin
Banaji, Mahzarin R.
Macrae, C. Neil
Venue: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published: 2006-06-01
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 49-55
ISSN: 1749-5016 (ISSN-L)
1749-5024
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsl007
PMC: PMC2555403
OpenAlex: W2156446734
Cited by: 117
References: 31
Citations by year: 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 15 · 2012: 9
FWCI: 1.94
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: hybrid
doi.org
Licence: cc-by-nc
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (vor, 3808 d)
Locations: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
Keywords: impression formation, dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, person perception, social orienting
MeSH terms: Adolescent, Cognition, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Social Perception, Prefrontal Cortex

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