Brain connectivity during social exclusion differs depending on the closeness within a triad among older adults living in a village.

ABSTRACT: Social exclusion occurs in various types of social relationships, from anonymous others to close friends. However, the role that social relationships play in social exclusion is less well known because most paradigms investigating social exclusion have been done in laboratory contexts, without considering the features of individuals' real-world social relationships. Here, we addressed this gap by examining how pre-existing social relationships with rejecters may influence the brain response of individuals experiencing social exclusion. Eighty-eight older adults living in a rural village visited the laboratory with two other participants living in the same village and played Cyberball in an Magnetic Resonance Imaging scanner. Utilizing whole-brain connectome-based predictive modeling, we an

SUBMITTER: Kim H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10121205 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature