ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2021
Roles of the MPFC and insula in impression management under social observation.
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- Cross-cultural evidence that shame is a defense against reputational damage.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Impression management in distributive justice: balancing fairness and social perception.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Neural Processes Linking Interoception to Moral Preferences Aligned with Group Consensus.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Autistic traits modulate neural and behavioral responses to social vs nonsocial rewards.Personality neuroscience · 2025Article
- Normativity vs. uniqueness: effects of social relationship strength on neural representations of others.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- Distinctive Roles of Medial Prefrontal Cortex Subregions in Strategic Conformity to Social Hierarchy.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Neurocircuitry of Personality Traits and Intent in Decision-Making.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Distinctive roles of mPFC subregions in forming impressions and guiding social interaction based on others' social behaviour.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2022Article
- Self-Enhancement and the Medial Prefrontal Cortex: The Convergence of Clinical and Experimental Findings.Brain sciences · 2022Review
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Abstract
People often engage in impression management by presenting themselves and others as socially desirable. However, specific behavioral manifestations and underlying neural mechanisms of impression management remain unknown. In this study, we investigated the neural mechanism of impression management during self- and friend-evaluation. Only participants assigned to the observation (OBS) group, not the control (CON) group, were informed that their responses would be monitored. They answered how well positive and negative trait adjectives described themselves or their friends. The behavioral results showed that the OBS group was more likely to reject negative traits for self-evaluation and to accept positive traits for friend-evaluation. An independent study revealed that demoting negative traits for oneself and promoting positive traits for a friend helps manage one's impression. In parallel with the behavioral results, in the OBS vs the CON group, the rostromedial prefrontal cortex (rmPFC) and anterior insula (AI) activity showed a greater increase as the negativity of negatively valenced adjectives increased during self-evaluation and also showed a greater increase as the positivity of positively valenced adjectives increased during friend-evaluation. The present study suggests that rmPFC and AI are critically involved in impression management, promoting socially desirable target evaluations under social observation.
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