ArticlePsychophysiology2022
The time course of reactivity to social acceptance and rejection feedback: An examination of event-related potentials and behavioral measures in a peer interaction task.
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- A Neurodevelopmental Model of Social Threat Sensitivity as a Mechanism Linking Fearful Temperament, Social Anxiety, and Depression in Youth.Journal of child and adolescent psychopharmacology · 2026Review
- Neighborhood socioeconomic status and adolescent brain responses to peer feedback: Testing relationships with negative and positive affect assessed outside of the lab.Development and psychopathology · 2026Article
- How positive and negative feedback following real interactions changes subsequent sender ratings.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation in sexual minority adolescents: An examination of social reward responsiveness and support as moderators.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2024Article
- Neural Reactivity to Social Reward Moderates the Association Between Social Media Use and Momentary Positive Affect in Adolescents.Affective science · 2024Article
- Reduced reward responsiveness and depression vulnerability: Consideration of social contexts and implications for intervention.Psychophysiology · 2024Review
- How Socially Avoidant Emerging Adults Process Social Feedback during Human-to-Human Interaction after Social Rejection: An Event-Related Potential Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Adolescents' Sexual Orientation and Behavioral and Neural Reactivity to Peer Acceptance and Rejection: The Moderating Role of Family Support.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024Article
- Behavioral and psychiatric correlates of brain responses to social feedback.Psychophysiology · 2024Article
- Characterizing positive and negative valence systems function in adolescent depression: An RDoC-informed approach integrating multiple neural measures.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2023Article
- Social relationship modulates advisor's brain response to advice-giving outcome evaluation: Evidence from an event-related potential study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Measurement of social processes is of interest across areas of research. Event-related potentials (ERPs) measured using electroencephalography (EEG) offer high temporal resolution, but little work has leveraged this strength to characterize the time course of social feedback processing. The present study aimed to replicate and extend previous research by systematically identifying the temporal dynamics of responses to both social acceptance and rejection feedback relative to neutral feedback, examining internal consistency of ERPs, and exploring correspondence with behavioral measures elicited during a peer interaction task. Emerging adults (N = 118) completed a computerized peer interaction task in which they made decisions to accept or reject peers and received rejection, acceptance, and neutral feedback while EEG data were recorded. Principal component analysis was used to derive temporally and spatially distinct ERP components sensitive to positive and negative social feedback. Participant voting patterns and post-task liking ratings for computer-controlled peers were also examined. Replicating prior work, components consistent with N1, P2, reward positivity (RewP), and P3 emerged, but distinct patterns of modulation by acceptance and rejection relative to neutral feedback were observed. Most components showed acceptable internal consistency. Sensitivity to peer feedback assessed through participant voting patterns and liking ratings for peers was correlated with RewP and P3 components. Results highlight the complexity of social feedback processing observable in a computerized peer interaction task and offer promising neural and behavioral measures that can be used to examine individual differences in sensitivity to both social acceptance and rejection feedback.
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