Secure attachment partners attenuate neural responses to social exclusion: An fMRI investigation

Karremans, Johan C.; Heslenfeld, Dirk J.; Dillen, Lotte F. van; Lange, Paul A. M. Van

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2011.04.003

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“…Replicating previous findings on exclusion, in our modified paradigm the main effect of exclusion contrasted to inclusion confirmed increased activity in regions which have been described in several studies for healthy adult samples (Karremans et al 2011;Kawamoto et al 2012;Onoda et al 2009;Sebastian et al 2011). Most consistently, higher activity in exclusion has been reported for regions which are associated with emotion processing and regulation, like the ACC, the medial and lateral PFC and limbic regions (Kohn et al 2014;Moor et al 2012;Sebastian et al 2011;Will et al 2016).…”

Section: Neural Responses Of Exclusion Versus Inclusionsupporting

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“…Evaluation of the behavior of the excluders might determine if a situation is processed as intentional or unintentional exclusion (Chow et al 2008). Although former studies already reported recruitment of mentalizing regions using the Cyberball task (Karremans et al 2011;Moor et al 2012), we demonstrated that performance-related exclusion seemed to engage mentalizing regions to a larger extent than naïve exclusion. Other studies showed that social evaluative threat related to performance results in lowered self-esteem (Dedovic et al 2014) and rumination (Nepon et al 2011).…”

Section: Neural Responses To Performance-related Exclusion Versus Naïcontrasting

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Contextual exclusion processing: an fMRI study of rejection in a performance-related context

Wagels

Bergs

Clemens

et al. 2016

Brain Imaging and Behavior

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Social stress has a major detrimental impact on subjective well-being. Previous research mainly focused on two methods to induce and measure social stress: social exclusion and performance evaluation. For social exclusion researchers frequently focused on the Cyberball task, which in contrast to many psychosocial stress paradigms does not include a performance component. The aim of the current study was to establish an optimized psychosocial stress paradigm by combining both, social exclusion as well as performance evaluation within a single fMRI paradigm. We implemented a modification of the Cyberball task including a performance game (with exclusion and inclusion periods) in addition to the already established exclusion and inclusion periods. This indeed resulted in increased subjective stress in the performance game. Hence, the modified Cyberball version seems to be superior in mapping relevant neural social stress correlates more pronounced and reliably. Exclusion within the performance-related context contrasted to the unmodified exclusion was associated with higher activation in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and the anterior insula. Moreover, the modified exclusion reflected greater social processing in the precuneus, several temporo-parietal and medial prefrontal areas, as suggested by the additional task aspects of social evaluation and social perspective taking. The findings emphasize that public negative evaluation is effective in substantially enlarging and potentiating the distressing effect of exclusion on a subjective as well as on a neural level. This may have a great potential for further experimental research on social stress.

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Section: Neural Responses Of Exclusion Versus Inclusionsupporting

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Section: Neural Responses To Performance-related Exclusion Versus Naïcontrasting

confidence: 45%

Contextual exclusion processing: an fMRI study of rejection in a performance-related context

Wagels

Bergs

Clemens

et al. 2016

Brain Imaging and Behavior

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“…The results suggest that OP increases an individual's tension. In contrast, Karremans et al [11] demonstrated that presence of an attachment partner reduced prefrontal activation because of decreasing of tension when participants were excluded during a balltossing game task.…”

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Appraisal of a copresent observer as supportive activates the left inferior parietal lobule

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Saito

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The role of the presence of others in a social context has been debated widely. Although the importance of mutual cognitive functions between performer and observer is generally accepted, little is known about the neural correlates of paired performers and observers themselves. In this near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) study we measured the activation in the bilateral inferior parietal lobule (IPL) when driver-observer pairs of participants performed a driving video game task. The performer's task was to drive from start to goal using a default route map, while their partner observed the performance. According to the performer's subjective appraisal of the copresent observer obtained after the driving task, the pairs were divided into three groups: supportive, nonsupportive, and neutral. The driving time, error, and tension score did not show significant differences between the three groups. However, NIRS data of performers in the supportive group showed significantly higher activation in the left IPL than those in the nonsupportive group, but not in the right IPL. NIRS data of observers in the concerned two groups did not show significant differences bilaterally in IPL. These results suggest that the left IPL distinctively responds according to a performer's cognitive appraisal of a copresent observer.

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“…Both psychosocial and physiological stress are associated with situations that threaten survival (Karremans et al, 2011), and both stressors alter the mesolimbic dopamine transmission in the striatum and the prefrontal cortex (Adler et al, 2000; Pruessner et al, 2008; Saal et al, 2003; Scott et al, 2006). Additionally, it has been argued that similar neural regions, such as the limbic-prefrontal circuit, are activated in processing psychosocial as well as physiological stress (Zubieta and Stohler, 2009).…”

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Psychosocial versus physiological stress — Meta-analyses on deactivations and activations of the neural correlates of stress reactions

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Stress is present in everyday life in various forms and situations. Two stressors frequently investigated are physiological and psychosocial stress. Besides similar subjective and hormonal responses, it has been suggested that they also share common neural substrates. The current study used activation-likelihood-estimation meta-analysis to test this assumption by integrating results of previous neuroimaging studies on stress processing. Reported results are cluster-level FWE corrected. The inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and the anterior insula (AI) were the only regions that demonstrated overlapping activation for both stressors. Analysis of physiological stress showed consistent activation of cognitive and affective components of pain processing such as the insula, striatum, or the middle cingulate cortex. Contrarily, analysis across psychosocial stress revealed consistent activation of the right superior temporal gyrus and deactivation of the striatum. Notably, parts of the striatum appeared to be functionally specified: the dorsal striatum was activated in physiological stress, whereas the ventral striatum was deactivated in psychosocial stress. Additional functional connectivity and decoding analyses further characterized this functional heterogeneity and revealed higher associations of the dorsal striatum with motor regions and of the ventral striatum with reward processing. Based on our meta-analytic approach, activation of the IFG and the AI seems to indicate a global neural stress reaction. While physiological stress activates a motoric fight-or-flight reaction, during psychosocial stress attention is shifted towards emotion regulation and goal-directed behavior, and reward processing is reduced. Our results show the significance of differentiating physiological and psychosocial stress in neural engagement. Furthermore, the assessment of deactivations in addition to activations in stress research is highly recommended.

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Secure attachment partners attenuate neural responses to social exclusion: An fMRI investigation

Cited by 100 publications

References 20 publications

Contextual exclusion processing: an fMRI study of rejection in a performance-related context

Contextual exclusion processing: an fMRI study of rejection in a performance-related context

Appraisal of a copresent observer as supportive activates the left inferior parietal lobule

Psychosocial versus physiological stress — Meta-analyses on deactivations and activations of the neural correlates of stress reactions

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