MEG signatures of long-term effects of agreement and disagreement with the majority.

ABSTRACT: People often change their beliefs by succumbing to an opinion of others. Such changes are often referred to as effects of social influence. While some previous studies have focused on the reinforcement learning mechanisms of social influence or on its internalization, others have reported evidence of changes in sensory processing evoked by social influence of peer groups. In this study, we used magnetoencephalographic (MEG) source imaging to further investigate the long-term effects of agreement and disagreement with the peer group. The study was composed of two sessions. During the first session, participants rated the trustworthiness of faces and subsequently learned group rating of each face. In the first session, a neural marker of an immediate mismatch between individual and group opi

SUBMITTER: Gorin A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7870674 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature