Performance monitoring during a minimal group manipulation
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The on-going (self-)monitoring of our behaviour is inextricably intertwined with the surrounding social context. In this study, we investigated whether a minimal group paradigm assigning individuals to arbitrary group categories is powerful enough to induce changes in behavioural, psychophysiological and event-related potential correlates of performance monitoring. Following arbitrary group assignment based on ostensible task performance and a group identification task, 22 volunteers performed a flanker-task during both in-group and out-group contexts, while electroencephalography was performed. More errors were committed in the out-group compared with the in-group context. Error-related negativity amplitudes were larger for in-group compared with out-group errors. However, subsequent processing reflected in late Pe amplitudes and stimulus-driven conflict reflected in N2 amplitudes were not affected by the group context. Heart rate deceleration (during both correct and incorrect trials) tended to be more pronounced during the out-group compared with the in-group context. This surprising observation was corroborated by subjective ratings of performance satisfaction, in which participants reported higher satisfaction with their out-group performance. This study identified specific stimulus evaluation processes to be affected by a minimal group manipulation and demonstrated thereby transient top-down effects of a social context manipulation on performance monitoring.
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- Authors
- Pfabigan, D. M., Holzner, M.-T., & Lamm, C.
- Affiliations
- University of Vienna (AT)
- Venue
- Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2016-05-20
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- 11
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 1560-1568
- ISSN
- 1749-5016 (ISSN-L)
- 1749-5024
- PMC
- PMC5040912
- OpenAlex
- W2407484641
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- 9
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- 84
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- Funders
- Universität Wien
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Free Will and Agency
- Keywords
- performance monitoring, minimal group paradigm, group identification, error-related negativity, flanker task, heart rate deceleration, performance satisfaction, event-related potentials
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Brain, Electroencephalography, Evoked Potentials, Female, Heart Rate, Humans, Male, Psychomotor Performance, Reaction Time, Social Identification, Young Adult
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