The impact of social comparison on the neural substrates of reward processing: An event-related potential study

Qiu, Jiang; Yu, Caiyun; Li, Hong; Jou, Jerwen; Tu, Shen; Wang, Ting; Zhang, Qinglin

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.08.025

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“…A study using electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings identified event-related brain potential (ERP) correlates with this social comparison effect. Both disadvantageous and advantageous unequal payoff elicited a larger late negative component (LNC), between 550 and 750 ms, when compared to equal payoff conditions (Qiu et al, 2010). Source analysis revealed that the generators of the LNC were localized near the caudate nucleus.…”

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Brain potentials in outcome evaluation: When social comparison takes effect

Zhang

Elieson

et al. 2012

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 89%

Brain potentials in outcome evaluation: When social comparison takes effect

Zhang

Elieson

et al. 2012

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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“…Boksem et al . 39 found enhanced FRN when participants’ own outcomes were worse than those of others, but neither Wu et al 40 nor Qiu et al 41 replicated these results. What seemed to matter in these two other experiments was not so much whether the participant received a higher payoff than the other player, but rather whether the two players were equitably rewarded.…”

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Brain mechanisms of social comparison and their influence on the reward system

2014

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Whenever we interact with others, we judge them and whenever we make such judgments, we compare them with ourselves, other people, or internalized standards. Countless social psychological experiments have shown that comparative thinking plays a ubiquitous role in person perception and social cognition as a whole. The topic of social comparison has recently aroused the interest of social neuroscientists, who have begun to investigate its neural underpinnings. The present article provides an overview of these neuroimaging and electrophysiological studies. We discuss recent findings on the consequences of social comparison on the brain processing of outcomes and highlight the role of the brain’s reward system. Moreover, we analyze the relationship between the brain networks involved in social comparisons and those active during other forms of cognitive and perceptual comparison. Finally, we discuss potential future questions that research on the neural correlates of social comparison could address.

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“…The impact of such counterfactual choices is even more pronounced in social settings, indicating that these may provide additional information for learning (Coricelli and Rustichini, 2010). One ERP study indicates that the FRN to one's own outcomes might be modulated as a function of whether a co-player wins or loses at the same time (Qiu et al, 2010). In an fMRI study on social comparison, dACC activation was related to envying others' success, whereas schadenfreude was associated with ventral striatum activity when gloating over the misfortune of a previously envied person (Takahashi et al, 2009).…”

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Brain systems underlying the affective and social monitoring of actions: An integrative review

Koban

Pourtois

2014

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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(max 170 words)Action monitoring allows the swift detection of conflicts, errors, and the rapid evaluation of outcomes. These processes are crucial for learning, adaptive behavior, and for the regulation of cognitive control. Our review discusses neuroimaging and electrophysiological studies that have explored the contribution of emotional and social factors during action monitoring. Metaanalytic brain activation maps demonstrate reliable overlap of error monitoring, emotional, and social processes in the dorsal mediofrontal cortex (dMFC), lateral prefrontal areas, and anterior insula (AI). Cumulating evidence suggests that action monitoring is modulated by trait anxiety and negative affect, and that activity of the dMFC and the amygdala during action monitoring might contribute to the 'affective tagging' of actions along a valence dimension. The role of AI in action monitoring may be the integration of outcome information with self-agency and social context factors, thereby generating more complex situation-specific and conscious emotional feeling states. Our review suggests that action-monitoring processes operate at multiple levels in the human brain, and are shaped by dynamic interactions with affective and social processes.Keywords: Anterior insula; dorsal cingulate cortex; mediofrontal cortex; amygdala; error monitoring; ERN; feedback processing; social cognition; emotions; cognitive control; emotioncognition interactions; meta-analysis 3 Overview and motivationIn order to adapt their behavior, to detect and learn from errors, and ultimately to increase their chances of survival, humans and other animals have to monitor their actions (Rabbitt, 1966). Flexible regulation of behavior requires its constant evaluation in terms of performance and outcomes, as well as in terms of costs and future consequences. Action and error monitoring have been studied for several decades in psychology and neuroscience (for previous reviews see (Etkin et al., 2011;Moser et al., 2013;Pessoa, 2008;Proudfit et al., 2013;Shackman et al., 2011;Shenhav et al., 2013), we propose that error and action monitoring is an intrinsically affective and social process. However, we show that meta-analytic activation maps support overlapping brain responses to error processing, emotional, and social information processing not only in dMFC, but also in several other brain regions, including anterior insula and lateral prefrontal cortex.Further, recent intracranial electrophysiological recordings showed error-related activity in the amygdala, suggesting this limbic region may contribute to affective responses to errors and negative action outcomes. In the closing part, we outline an integrative framework for 4 understanding the brain systems underlying affective and social interactions with action monitoring, which may be crucial to foster behavioral control in real life.

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The impact of social comparison on the neural substrates of reward processing: An event-related potential study

Cited by 37 publications

References 42 publications

Brain potentials in outcome evaluation: When social comparison takes effect

Brain potentials in outcome evaluation: When social comparison takes effect

Brain mechanisms of social comparison and their influence on the reward system

Brain systems underlying the affective and social monitoring of actions: An integrative review

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