Trial reportProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2013
Superiority illusion arises from resting-state brain networks modulated by dopamine.
Trial report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Overlapping yet dissociable contributions of superiority illusion features to Ponzo illusion strength and metacognitive performance.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Extrastriatal dopamine D2/3 receptor binding, functional connectivity, and autism socio-communicational deficits: a PET and fMRI study.Molecular psychiatry · 2022Article
- Pre-exposure to Ambiguous Faces Modulates Top-Down Control of Attentional Orienting to Counterpredictive Gaze Cues.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- A Bayesian Account of Psychopathy: A Model of Lacks Remorse and Self-Aggrandizing.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2018Article
- Social anxiety disorder exhibit impaired networks involved in self and theory of mind processing.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2017Article
- Neurobiological Evidence for the Primacy of Mania Hypothesis.Current neuropharmacology · 2017Review
- How prepared are UK medical graduates for practice? A rapid review of the literature 2009-2014.BMJ open · 2017Review
- Multimodal frontostriatal connectivity underlies individual differences in self-esteem.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2015Article
- The Neural Correlates of Optimistic and Depressive Tendencies of Self-Evaluations and Resting-State Default Mode Network.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2015Article
- Regional Homogeneity of Resting-State Brain Activity Suppresses the Effect of Dopamine-Related Genes on Sensory Processing Sensitivity.PloS one · 2015Article
- The Molecular Neurobiology of Twelve Steps Program & Fellowship: Connecting the Dots for Recovery.Journal of reward deficiency syndromeArticle
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Abstract
The majority of individuals evaluate themselves as superior to average. This is a cognitive bias known as the "superiority illusion." This illusion helps us to have hope for the future and is deep-rooted in the process of human evolution. In this study, we examined the default states of neural and molecular systems that generate this illusion, using resting-state functional MRI and PET. Resting-state functional connectivity between the frontal cortex and striatum regulated by inhibitory dopaminergic neurotransmission determines individual levels of the superiority illusion. Our findings help elucidate how this key aspect of the human mind is biologically determined, and identify potential molecular and neural targets for treatment for depressive realism.
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