Trial reportPloS one2018
The impact of self-esteem on the preferential processing of self-related information: Electrophysiological correlates of explicit self vs. other evaluation.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Differential role of beta band activity in a dual-task working memory paradigm under internally vs. externally directed cognition.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- A Comprehensive Dataset for Investigating the Structure of Self-Bias.Scientific data · 2025Article
- The aging self: how older men and women reflect on themselves and others.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2025Article
- Association of loneliness with suicide risk and depression in individuals with schizophrenia: moderating effects of self-esteem and perceived support from families and friends.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2023Article
- The self and a close-other: differences between processing of faces and newly acquired information.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- How selves differ within and across cognitive domains: self-prioritisation, self-concept, and psychiatric traits.BMC psychology · 2022Article
- Are covered faces eye-catching for us? The impact of masks on attentional processing of self and other faces during the COVID-19 pandemic.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2022Article
- Late frontal positivity effects in Self-referential Memory: Unique to the Self?Social neuroscience · 2021Article
- Interactions of Emotion and Self-reference in Source Memory: An ERP Study.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
Preferential processing of self-related information is a well-documented phenomenon on both the behavioral and neural levels. However, the impact of self-esteem on this self-preference has not been studied in a systematic way. Here, the electrophysiological correlates of explicit self-reflection were investigated in individuals with low (LSE) and high self-esteem (HSE). Participants evaluated trait adjectives in reference to the self or to an "other" person (close-other, famous) while EEG was recorded. The analysis of event-related potentials focused on the late positive component (LPC), which exhibits a fronto-central distribution and latency over 500 ms. In both LSE and HSE groups, the amplitudes of LPC were enhanced in the self condition when compared to control conditions (both close-other and famous). Crucially, LPC amplitudes in the HSE group were significantly higher than in the LSE group. Moreover, the self-preference effect, defined as the difference between amplitudes of LPC associated with the evaluation of words in relation to oneself vs. other people, was significantly higher in the HSE group than in the LSE group. Overall, our findings indicate that people with high self-esteem tend to engage in self-referential processing to a higher extent.
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