Functional magnetic resonance imaging responses relate to differences in real-world social experience.
Title | Functional magnetic resonance imaging responses relate to differences in real-world social experience. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2007 |
Authors | Eisenberger NI, Gable SL, Lieberman MD |
Journal | Emotion |
Volume | 7 |
Issue | 4 |
Pagination | 745-54 |
Date Published | 2007 Nov |
ISSN | 1528-3542 |
Keywords | Adult, Affect, Brain, Cognition, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Life Change Events, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Social Alienation, Social Perception |
Abstract | Although neuroimaging techniques have proven powerful in assessing neural responses, little is known about whether scanner-based neural activity relates to real-world psychological experience. A joint functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)/experience-sampling study investigated whether individual differences in neurocognitive reactivity to scanner-based social rejection related to: (a) moment-to-moment feelings of social rejection during real-world social interactions ("momentary social distress") and (b) the extent to which these momentary feelings corresponded with end-of-day global assessments of social disconnection ("end-of-day social disconnection"). Individuals who showed greater activity in regions associated with affective and pain processing (dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, amygdala, periaqueductal gray) during scanner-based social rejection reported feeling greater momentary social distress during their daily social interactions. In contrast, individuals who showed greater activity in regions associated with memory and self-referential memory encoding (hippocampus, medial prefrontal cortex) showed a stronger correspondence between momentary social distress and end-of-day social disconnection, such that greater momentary social distress was associated with greater end-of-day social disconnection. These findings complement previous work showing a dissociation between momentary and retrospective reports of affect and suggest that these processes rely on dissociable neural systems. |
DOI | 10.1037/1528-3542.7.4.745 |
Alternate Journal | Emotion |
PubMed ID | 18039043 |
Grant List | R21MH071521-01 / MH / NIMH NIH HHS / United States R21MH66709-01 / MH / NIMH NIH HHS / United States T32MH019925 / MH / NIMH NIH HHS / United States |