Popular individuals process the world in particularly normative ways

Baek, Elisa C.; Hyon, Ryan; López, Karina; Finn, Emily S.; Porter, Mason A.; Parkinson, Carolyn

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“…For example, similar brain responses to the same content predict friendship (Parkinson et al, 2018). Other work suggests that social similarities (like being members of the same social group or being close in a social network) are associated with how similar people respond to identical media content (Baek et al, 2021). Finally, regarding message interpretation, people with similar views (about pandemic risk perceptions) responded to the same risk-related information more similarly (Schmälzle et al, 2013), a result that is also seen in other domains such as political communication and story framing (Leong et al, 2020; Yeshurun et al, 2017).…”

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Schmälzle,

Lim,

et al. 2024

Journal of Media Psychology

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Recent work using neuroimaging has shown that brain responses to a movie are similar across viewers. These similar responses emerge because the movie recruits brain systems involved in sensory (e.g., responding to the flickering lights on screen), perceptual (e.g., identifying the characters’ faces), and social-cognitive processing (e.g., following and understanding the story, social, and affective responses) – separately in each individual brain, but collectively across the audience. Here we compare brain response similarities during an engaging, social, and nonverbal 5-minute Pixar movie across two levels: First, we show that at a macro-level, the movie-evoked brain responses among the current audience from Australia are correlated with the brain responses to the same movie watched by an audience from the USA. Second, we investigate whether twins, who maximize the preexisting similarity two individual audience members can have, exhibit more similar brain responses to the same movie. We find that shared responses measured in an audience from Australia were highly correlated with responses from an audience watching the same movie in the USA. Second, we find that twins (who are genetically more similar and usually raised in a similar environment) exhibit more strongly aligned brain responses compared to non-twin participants. These results support our predictions about the role of pre-existing similarities among audiences for brain-to-brain coupling during movie reception. Moreover, they suggest that brain-to-brain similarities in response to movies contain information about similarities at the social level.

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Schmälzle,

Lim,

et al. 2024

Journal of Media Psychology

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Lonely individuals process the world in idiosyncratic ways

Baek¹,

Hyon²,

López³

et al. 2021

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Loneliness (i.e., the distressing feeling that often accompanies the subjective sense of social disconnection) is detrimental to mental and physical health, and deficits in self-reported feelings of being understood by others is a risk factor for loneliness. What contributes to these deficits in lonely people? We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to unobtrusively measure the relative alignment of various aspects of people’s mental processing of naturalistic stimuli (specifically, videos) as they unfold over time. We thereby tested whether lonely people actually process the world in idiosyncratic ways, rather than only exaggerating or misperceiving how dissimilar others’ views are to their own (which could lead them to feel misunderstood, even if they actually see the world similarly to those around them). We found evidence for such idiosyncrasy: lonely individuals’ neural responses during free viewing of the videos were dissimilar to peers in their communities, particularly in brain regions (e.g., regions of the default-mode network) in which similar responses have been associated with shared psychological perspectives and subjective understanding. Our findings were robust even after controlling for demographic similarities, participants’ overall levels of objective social isolation, and their friendships with each other. These results suggest that being surrounded predominantly by people who see the world differently from oneself may be a risk factor for loneliness, even if one is friends with them.

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Popular individuals process the world in particularly normative ways

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Lonely individuals process the world in idiosyncratic ways

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