Community structure analysis of rejection sensitive personality profiles: A common neural response to social evaluative threat?

ABSTRACT: Monitoring social threat is essential for maintaining healthy social relationships, and recent studies suggest a neural alarm system that governs our response to social rejection. Frontal-midline theta (4-8 Hz) oscillatory power might act as a neural correlate of this system by being sensitive to unexpected social rejection. Here, we examined whether frontal-midline theta is modulated by individual differences in personality constructs sensitive to social disconnection. In addition, we examined the sensitivity of feedback-related brain potentials (i.e., the feedback-related negativity and P3) to social feedback. Sixty-five undergraduate female participants (mean age = 19.69 years) participated in the Social Judgment Paradigm, a fictitious peer-evaluation task in which participants provided

SUBMITTER: Kortink ED 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5962625 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature