An association between biased impression updating and relationship facilitation: A behavioral and fMRI investigation.

ABSTRACT: Is ingroup bias associated with any benefit for maintaining close relationships? We examined the link between biased impression updating for ingroup members (i.e., friends) and relationship maintenance, as measured by the number of friends participants reported having (Studies 1 and 2). We also investigated the underlying neural basis of this possible effect, focusing on activity in the right temporo-parietal junction (RTPJ), a region of the social brain involved in moral updating (Study 2). Specifically, we tested whether selectively discounting negative information about close others, manifested in reduced impression updating, and indexed by reduced RTPJ activity, is related to maintaining close relationships. In Study 1, after imagining a friend and a stranger performing different posit

SUBMITTER: Park B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7453880 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature