Self-esteem modulates medial prefrontal cortical responses to evaluative social feedback.

ABSTRACT: Self-esteem is a facet of personality that influences perception of social standing and modulates the salience of social acceptance and rejection. As such, self-esteem may bias neural responses to positive and negative social feedback across individuals. During functional magnetic resonance imaging scanning, participants (n = 42) engaged in a social evaluation task whereby they ostensibly received feedback from peers indicating they were liked or disliked. Results demonstrated that individuals with low self-esteem believed that they received less positive feedback from others and showed enhanced activity to positive versus negative social feedback in the ventral anterior cingulate cortex/medial prefrontal cortex (vACC/mPFC). By contrast, vACC/mPFC activity was insensitive to positive versu

SUBMITTER: Somerville LH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2978246 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature