The heart-break of social rejection versus the brain wave of social acceptance

Veen, Frederik M. van der; Molen, Maurits W. van der; Sahibdin, Priya P.; Franken, Ingmar H.A.

doi:10.1093/scan/nst120

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“…A bias score was calculated to examine whether participants anticipated significantly more acceptance than rejection feedback (Van der Veen et al, 2013). This bias score was derived from dividing the number of acceptance judgments by the number of total judgments.…”

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Fear of negative evaluation modulates electrocortical and behavioral responses when anticipating social evaluative feedback

Molen

Poppelaars

Hartingsveldt

et al. 2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Cognitive models posit that the fear of negative evaluation (FNE) is a hallmark feature of social anxiety. As such, individuals with high FNE may show biased information processing when faced with social evaluation. The aim of the current study was to examine the neural underpinnings of anticipating and processing social-evaluative feedback, and its correlates with FNE. We used a social judgment paradigm in which female participants (N = 31) were asked to indicate whether they believed to be socially accepted or rejected by their peers. Anticipatory attention was indexed by the stimulus preceding negativity (SPN), while the feedback-related negativity and P3 were used to index the processing of social-evaluative feedback. Results provided evidence of an optimism bias in social peer evaluation, as participants more often predicted to be socially accepted than rejected. Participants with high levels of FNE needed more time to provide their judgments about the social-evaluative outcome. While anticipating social-evaluative feedback, SPN amplitudes were larger for anticipated social acceptance than for social rejection feedback. Interestingly, the SPN during anticipated social acceptance was larger in participants with high levels of FNE. None of the feedback-related brain potentials correlated with the FNE. Together, the results provided evidence of biased information processing in individuals with high levels of FNE when anticipating (rather than processing) social-evaluative feedback. The delayed response times in high FNE individuals were interpreted to reflect augmented vigilance imposed by the upcoming social-evaluative threat. Possibly, the SPN constitutes a neural marker of this vigilance in females with higher FNE levels, particularly when anticipating social acceptance feedback.

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“…In a recent study, Van der Veen et al (2013) investigated feedback ERPs using the social judgment paradigm. Results of this study corroborated the enhanced brain activity after receiving social acceptance feedback.…”

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Fear of negative evaluation modulates electrocortical and behavioral responses when anticipating social evaluative feedback

Molen

Poppelaars

Hartingsveldt

et al. 2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…Although there is a great deal of research examining the RewP in response to monetary rewards, only a few other studies to date have examined the RewP/FN in response to social reward and/or rejection (Crowley, Wu, Molfese, & Mayes, 2010;Kujawa, Arfer, Klein, & Proudfit, 2014;Sun & Yu, 2014;van der Veen, van der Molen, Sahibdin, & Franken, 2013). These studies have demonstrated that social feedback elicits ERP responses that are similar, though not identical in timing or morphology in every study, to those previously observed in response to monetary reinforcement.…”

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“…In studies that have included both acceptance and rejection feedback, the results have been more mixed. For instance, Sun and Yu (2014) observed both a negative deflection in the ERP waveform in response to negative social feedback and a positive-going deflection in response to positive social feedback, while van der Veen and colleagues (2013) only observed a positive deflection in the ERP waveform in response to expected acceptance feedback. Kujawa, Arfer, and colleagues (2014), however, observed a negative-going deflection that was enhanced for rejection and reduced for acceptance feedback.…”

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Neural responses to social and monetary reward in early adolescence and emerging adulthood

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Reward processing is often considered to be a monolithic construct, with different incentive types eliciting equivalent neural and behavioural responses. The majority of the literature on reward processing has used monetary incentives to elicit reward-related activity; yet social incentives may be particularly important due to their powerful ability to shape behaviour. Findings from studies comparing social and monetary rewards have identified both overlapping and distinct responses. In order to explore whether reward processing is domain-general or category-specific (i.e., the same or different across reward types), the present study recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) from early adolescents (ages 12-13) and emerging adults (ages 18-25) while they completed social and monetary reward tasks. Temporospatial principal components analysis revealed morphologically-similar reward positivities (RewPs) in the social and monetary reward tasks in each age group. In early adolescents, no significant difference was found between the magnitude of the RewP to social and monetary rewards. In emerging adults, however, the RewP to monetary rewards was significantly larger than the RewP to social rewards. Additionally, responses to feedback between the two tasks were not significantly correlated in either age group. These results suggest that both domain-general and category-specific processes underlie neural responses to rewards and that the relative incentive value of different types of rewards may change across development. Findings from this study have important implications for understanding the role that neural response to rewards plays in the development of psychopathology during adolescence.

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“…Thereby, effects of social evaluation (acceptance vs. rejection) and expectancy (expected vs. unexpected outcomes) were manipulated. Early feedback evaluation (FRN component) was mostly sensitive to expectancy violations (Dekkers, Van Der Molen, Gunther Moor, Van Der Veen, & Van Der Molen, 2015; Van Der Molen, Dekkers, Westenberg, Van Der Veen, & Van Der Molen, 2016;Van Der Veen, Van Der Molen, Van Der Molen, & Franken, 2016), while later ERP processing stages (P300 component) reflected expected acceptance judgements (Van Der Veen, Van Der Molen, Sahibdin, & Franken, 2014; or general expectancy effects (Dekkers et al, 2015). In task versions that omitted the expectancy manipulation, early feedback evaluation was also reflecting acceptance vs. rejection judgements (Kujawa et al, 2014;Sun & Yu, 2014).…”

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Social dimension and complexity differentially influence brain responses during feedback processing

Pfabigan

Gittenberger

Lamm

2017

Social Neuroscience

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Recent research emphasizes the importance of social factors during performance monitoring. Thus, the current study investigated the impact of social stimuli -such as communicative gestures- on feedback processing. Moreover, it addressed a shortcoming of previous studies, which failed to consider stimulus complexity as potential confounding factor. Twenty-four volunteers performed a time estimation task while their electroencephalogram was recorded. Either social complex, social non-complex, non-social complex, or non-social non-complex stimuli were used to provide performance feedback. No effects of social dimension or complexity were found for task performance. In contrast, Feedback-Related Negativity (FRN) and P300 amplitudes were sensitive to both factors, with larger FRN and P300 amplitudes after social compared to non-social stimuli, and larger FRN amplitudes after complex positive than non-complex positive stimuli. P2 amplitudes were solely sensitive to feedback valence and social dimension. Subjectively, social complex stimuli were rated as more motivating than non-social complex ones. Independently of each other, social dimension and visual complexity influenced amplitude variation during performance monitoring. Social stimuli seem to be perceived as more salient, which is corroborated by P2, FRN and P300 results, as well as by subjective ratings. This could be explained due to their given relevance during every day social interactions.

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The heart-break of social rejection versus the brain wave of social acceptance

Cited by 59 publications

References 23 publications

Fear of negative evaluation modulates electrocortical and behavioral responses when anticipating social evaluative feedback

Fear of negative evaluation modulates electrocortical and behavioral responses when anticipating social evaluative feedback

Neural responses to social and monetary reward in early adolescence and emerging adulthood

Social dimension and complexity differentially influence brain responses during feedback processing

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