Cultural variation in neural responses to social but not monetary reward outcomes.

ABSTRACT: European Americans view high intensity, open-mouthed "excited" smiles more positively than Chinese because they value excitement and other high arousal positive states more (Tsai et al. 2018). This difference is supported by reward-related neural activity, with European Americans showing greater Nucleus Accumbens (NAcc) activity to excited (vs. calm) smiles than Chinese (Park et al., 2018). But do these cultural differences generalize to all rewards, and are they related to real-world social behavior? European American (N = 26) and Chinese (N = 27) participants completed social and monetary incentive delay tasks that distinguished between the anticipation and receipt (outcome) of social and monetary rewards while undergoing Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI). The groups did not d

SUBMITTER: Blevins E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10703126 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature