Neural Manifestations of Implicit Self-Esteem: An ERP Study

Wu, Li; Cai, Huajian; Gu, Ruolei; Luo, Yu; Zhang, Jianxin; Jing, Yang; Shi, Yuanyuan; Ding, Lei

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0101837

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“…The current study extended our understanding by revealing that implicit self-evaluation moderates N200 amplitudes, which suggests that self-associative information actually manifests before 300 ms. This idea is in line with one of our studies assessing automatic self-evaluation (Wu et al, 2014) as well as previous studies examining implicit evaluations of other social targets such as age judgments (van der Lugt et al, 2012).…”

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“…Previous studies using implicit association task (of which the logic is the same with IAT) indicated that implicit attitudes were activated by the presentation of category words rather than attribute words (Banfield, van der Lugt, & Münte, 2006;Bosson, Swann, & Pennebaker, 2000;van der Lugt, Banfield, Osinsky, & Münte, 2012). This idea is confirmed by one of our studies using GNAT to measure the implicit self-evaluation (Wu et al, 2014). Specifically, in this study, participants generated a response (Go) or withheld a response (Nogo) to self or others words and good or bad attributes.…”

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Electrophysiological evidence for executive control and efficient categorization involved in implicit self-evaluation

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Social Neuroscience

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Self-esteem affects human life. A thorough examination of the cognitive processes and neural activations of implicit self-evaluation should aid our understanding of self-esteem. The current study examined electrophysiological correlates of implicit self-evaluation among 19 healthy participants using event-related potentials (ERPs) recorded during an Implicit Association Test (IAT). Behavioral results showed that participants responded faster in the compatible condition (compared to the incompatible condition) in which "self" was paired with "positive" traits and "others" was paired with "negative" traits, reflecting positive nature of implicit self-evaluation. ERP results showed that the incompatible condition elicited a larger N200 and a smaller P3 compared to the compatible condition. These findings indicated that both executive control and stimulus categorization were involved in implicit self-evaluation, reflected by N200 and P3, respectively. We accordingly suggested that implicit self-evaluation manifests in multiple cognitive processes.

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Electrophysiological evidence for executive control and efficient categorization involved in implicit self-evaluation

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“…Our result, therefore, suggests that the control participants might more efficiently categorize the self‐positivity pairings compared to the self‐negativity pairings. Together with the previous findings, we thus provide additional electrophysiological evidence on the implicit self‐positivity bias among healthy individuals (Chen et al., 2014; Egenolf et al., 2013; Wu et al., 2014).…”

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Brain responses of dysphoric and control participants during a self‐esteem implicit association test

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Previous studies have reported lowered implicit self‐esteem at the behavioral level among depressed individuals. However, brain responses related to the lowered implicit self‐esteem have not been investigated in people with depression. Here, event‐related potentials were measured in 28 dysphoric participants (individuals with elevated amounts of depressive symptoms) and 30 control participants during performance of an implicit association task (IAT) suggested to reflect implicit self‐esteem. Despite equivalent behavioral performance, differences in brain responses were observed between the dysphoric and the control groups in late positive component (LPC) within 400–1,000 ms poststimulus latency. For the dysphoric group, self‐negativity mapping stimuli (me with negative word pairing and not‐me with positive word pairing) induced significantly larger LPC amplitude as compared to self‐positivity mapping stimuli (me with positive pairing and not‐me with negative pairing), whereas the control group showed the opposite pattern. These results suggest a more efficient categorization toward implicit self‐is‐negative association, possibly reflecting lower implicit self‐esteem among the dysphoric participants, in comparison to the controls. These results demonstrate the need for further investigation into the functional significance of LPC modulation during IAT and determination of whether LPC can be used as a neural marker of depressive‐related implicit self‐esteem.

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“…Considerable studies have used various methodologies such as the implicit association test (IAT), Go/Nogo association (GNAT) and name letter evaluations to explore the implicit self-esteem (Greenwald and Banaji, 1995;Greenwald and Farnham, 2000;Greenwald et al, 2002;Wu et al, 2014;Grundy et al, 2015). Moreover, the implicit and explicit self-esteem have been considered to be different constructs, and they might have different influences on cognitive processing or social behavior (Greenwald and Banaji, 1995;Bosson et al, 2000;Greenwald and Farnham, 2000).…”

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Self-esteem modulates automatic attentional responses to self-relevant stimuli: evidence from event-related brain potentials

Chen

Shui

Zhong

2015

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Previous studies have widely shown that self-esteem modulates the attention bias towards social rejection or emotion-related information. However, little is known about the influences of self-esteem on attention bias towards self-relevant stimuli. We aimed to investigate neural correlates that underlie the modulation effect of self-esteem on self-relevant processing. Event-related potentials (ERP) were recorded for subjects' own names and close others' names (the names of their friends) while subjects performed a three-stimulus oddball task. The results showed larger P2 amplitudes for one's own name than for close-other's name in the low self-esteem group, whereas this P2 effect were not observed in the high self-esteem group. In addition, one's own name elicited equivalent N250 amplitudes and larger P3 amplitudes compared with close-other's name in both high and low self-esteem groups. However, no interaction effects were observed between self-esteem and self-relevant processing in the N250 and P3 components. Thus, we found that the modulation effects of self-esteem on self-relevant processing occurred at the early P2 stage, but not at the later N250 and P3 stages. These findings reflect that individuals with low self-esteem demonstrate automatic attention towards their own names.

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Neural Manifestations of Implicit Self-Esteem: An ERP Study

Cited by 13 publications

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Electrophysiological evidence for executive control and efficient categorization involved in implicit self-evaluation

Electrophysiological evidence for executive control and efficient categorization involved in implicit self-evaluation

Brain responses of dysphoric and control participants during a self‐esteem implicit association test

Self-esteem modulates automatic attentional responses to self-relevant stimuli: evidence from event-related brain potentials

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