Self-Other Mergence in the Frontal Cortex during Cooperation and Competition.

ABSTRACT: To survive, humans must estimate their own ability and the abilities of others. We found that, although people estimated their abilities on the basis of their own performance in a rational manner, their estimates of themselves were partly merged with the performance of others. Reciprocally, their ability estimates for others also reflected their own, as well as the others', performance. Self-other mergence operated in a context-dependent manner: interacting with high or low performers, respectively, enhanced and diminished own ability estimates in cooperative contexts, but the opposite occurred in competitive contexts. Self-other mergence not only influenced subjective evaluations, it also affected how people subsequently objectively adjusted their performance. Perigenual anterior cingulat

SUBMITTER: Wittmann MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4961240 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature