Neural encoding of novel social networks: evidence that perceivers prioritize others' centrality.

ABSTRACT: Knowledge of someone's friendships can powerfully impact how one interacts with them. Previous research suggests that information about others' real-world social network positions-e.g. how well-connected they are (centrality), 'degrees of separation' (relative social distance)-is spontaneously encoded when encountering familiar individuals. However, many types of information covary with where someone sits in a social network. For instance, strangers' face-based trait impressions are associated with their social network centrality, and social distance and centrality are inherently intertwined with familiarity, interpersonal similarity and memories. To disentangle the encoding of the social network position from other social information, participants learned a novel social network in which t

SUBMITTER: Schwyck ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9949589 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature