The role of right temporoparietal junction in processing social prediction error across relationship contexts.

ABSTRACT: How do people update their impressions of close others? Although people may be motivated to maintain their positive impressions, they may also update their impressions when their expectations are violated (i.e. prediction error). Combining neuroimaging and computational modeling, we test the hypothesis that brain regions associated with theory of mind, especially right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ), underpin both motivated impression maintenance and impression updating evoked by prediction error. Participants had money either given to or taken away from them by a friend or a stranger and were then asked to rate each partner on trustworthiness and closeness across trials. Overall, participants engaged in less impression updating for friends vs strangers. Decreased rTPJ activity in respons

SUBMITTER: Park B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8343573 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature