Trial reportPloS one2013
The neural circuitry of reward processing in complex social comparison: evidence from an event-related FMRI study.
Trial report in PloS one, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Upward and downward comparisons across monetary and status domains.Human brain mapping · 2020Pooled it
- Social comparison in the brain: A coordinate-based meta-analysis of functional brain imaging studies on the downward and upward comparisons.Human brain mapping · 2018Pooled it
- The neurocomputational mechanisms underlying the impact of social comparison on effort investment.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Common and distinct equity preferences in children and adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The ERP Components of Reward Processing Modulated by Status-Related Social Comparison.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
- The neuroscience of social comparison and competition.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- P2 Manifests Subjective Evaluation of Reward Processing Under Social Comparison.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Neural mechanisms of social learning and decision-making.Science China. Life sciences · 2021Review
- The Influence of Counterfactual Comparison on Fairness in Gain-Loss Contexts.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
In this study, Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was conducted to investigate the mechanisms by which the brain activity in a complex social comparison context. One true subject and two pseudo-subjects were asked to complete a simple number estimate task at the same time which including upward and downward comparisons. Two categories of social comparison rewards (fair and unfair rewards distributions) were mainly presented by comparing the true subject with other two pseudo-subjects. Particularly, there were five conditions of unfair distribution when all the three subjects were correct but received different rewards. Behavioral data indicated that the ability to self-regulate was important in satisfaction judgment when the subject perceived an unfair reward distribution. fMRI data indicated that the interaction between the ventral striatum and the prefrontal cortex was important in self-regulation under specific conditions in complex social comparison, especially under condition of reward processing when there were two different reward values and the subject failed to exhibit upward comparison.
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