Social conformity updates the neural representation of facial attractiveness.

ABSTRACT: People readily change their behavior to comply with others. However, to which extent they will internalize the social influence remains elusive. In this preregistered electroencephalogram (EEG) study, we investigated how learning from one's in-group or out-group members about facial attractiveness would change explicit attractiveness ratings and spontaneous neural representations of facial attractiveness. Specifically, we quantified the neural representational similarities of learned faces with prototypical attractive faces during a face perception task without overt social influence and intentional evaluation. We found that participants changed their explicit attractiveness ratings to both in-group and out-group influences. Moreover, social conformity updated spontaneous neural representa

SUBMITTER: Chen D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11496808 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature