Positive bias in self-appraisals from friend's perspective: an event-related potential study

The present study investigated how positive bias in self-appraisals is differentially modulated when taking a friend's versus a stranger's perspective. Reaction time and event-related potentials were recorded while the participants performed a self-descriptiveness task with positive and ne...

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Published inNeuroreport Vol. 27; no. 9; p. 694
Main Authors Li, Shifeng, Xu, Kepeng, Xu, Qiongying, Xia, Ruixue, Ren, Deyun, Zhou, Aibao
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England 15.06.2016
Subjects
Adult
Analysis of Variance
Bias
Brain - physiology
Diagnostic Self Evaluation
Electroencephalography
Evoked Potentials - physiology
Female
Friends - psychology
Humans
Interprofessional Relations
Male
Reaction Time - physiology
Young Adult
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Summary:The present study investigated how positive bias in self-appraisals is differentially modulated when taking a friend's versus a stranger's perspective. Reaction time and event-related potentials were recorded while the participants performed a self-descriptiveness task with positive and negative trait adjectives from one's own perspective, a friend's perspective, or a stranger's perspective. The results showed that faster reaction times and reduced N400 amplitudes were induced by positive relative to negative words both in the self-perspective and friend-perspective conditions, but not in the stranger-perspective condition. This suggests that the perceived closeness between oneself and the other may modulate the neural basis of positive bias in self-appraisals during perspective taking.
ISSN:1473-558X
DOI:10.1097/WNR.0000000000000599