Theory of Mind Following the Violation of Strong and Weak Prior Beliefs.

ABSTRACT: Recent work in psychology and neuroscience has revealed differences in impression updating across social distance and group membership. Observers tend to maintain prior impressions of close (vs. distant) and ingroup (vs. outgroup) others in light of new information, and this belief maintenance is at times accompanied by increased activity in Theory of Mind regions. It remains an open question whether differences in the strength of prior beliefs, in a context absent social motivation, contribute to neural differences during belief updating. We devised a functional magnetic resonance imaging study to isolate the impact of experimentally induced prior beliefs on mentalizing activity. Participants learned about targets who performed 2 or 4 same-valenced behaviors (leading to the formation of w

SUBMITTER: Kim MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7786349 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature