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ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2022

Frontostriatal functional connectivity underlies self-enhancement during social evaluation.

Michael H Parrish, Janine M Dutcher, Keely A Muscatell, Tristen K Inagaki, Mona Moieni, Michael R Irwin, Naomi I Eisenberger

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Article in Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Michael H ParrishDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5873-386X
Janine M DutcherDepartment of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8678-8585
Keely A MuscatellDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7893-5565
Tristen K InagakiDepartment of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8825-2637
Mona MoieniDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Michael R IrwinNorman Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Naomi I EisenbergerDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
University of California, Los Angeles · USCarnegie Mellon University · USSan Diego State University · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Inflammation-Induced Depressed Mood: The Role of Social Neurocognitive MechanismsR01MH091352 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI EISENBERGER, NAOMI ILANA · 2010 to 2013
$1.7M
NIH HHS 5R01MH091352NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH091352
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Self-enhancement, the tendency to view oneself positively, is a pervasive social motive widely investigated in the psychological sciences. Relatively little is known about the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying this motive, specifically in social-evaluative situations. To investigate whether positive emotion regulation circuitry, circuitry involved in modulating positive affect, relates to the self-enhancement motive in social contexts, we conducted an functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study in a healthy young adult sample. We hypothesized that self-enhancement indices (state and trait self-esteem) would relate to greater functional connectivity between right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (RVLPFC), a region implicated in emotion regulation, and the ventral striatum (VS), a region associated with reward-related affect, during a social feedback task. Following social evaluation, participants experienced stable or decreased state self-esteem. Results showed that stable state self-esteem from pre- to post-scan and higher trait self-esteem related to greater RVLPFC-VS connectivity during positive evaluation. Stable-state self-esteem also related to greater RVLPFC-VS connectivity during negative evaluation. Moreover, RVLPFC activation during all types of feedback processing and left VS activation during negative feedback processing was greater for participants with stable-state self-esteem. These findings implicate neurocognitive mechanisms underlying emotion regulation in the self-enhancement motive and highlight a pathway through which self-enhancement may restore feelings of self-worth during threatening situations.

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Prefrontal CortexVentral StriatumCerebral CortexHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingSelf ConceptYoung Adultemotion regulationfMRIself-enhancementventral striatum

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PMID34984459
PMCPMC9340112
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