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Kedia, Gayannee ORCID: 0000-0003-0163-0867, Mussweiler, Thomas and Linden, David E. J. (2014). Brain mechanisms of social comparison and their influence on the reward system. Neuroreport, 25 (16). S. 1255 - 1266. PHILADELPHIA: LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS. ISSN 1473-558X

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Abstract

Whenever we interact with others, we judge them and whenever we make such judgments, we compare them with ourselves, other people, or internalized standards. Countless social psychological experiments have shown that comparative thinking plays a ubiquitous role in person perception and social cognition as a whole. The topic of social comparison has recently aroused the interest of social neuroscientists, who have begun to investigate its neural underpinnings. The present article provides an overview of these neuroimaging and electrophysiological studies. We discuss recent findings on the consequences of social comparison on the brain processing of outcomes and highlight the role of the brain's reward system. Moreover, we analyze the relationship between the brain networks involved in social comparisons and those active during other forms of cognitive and perceptual comparison. Finally, we discuss potential future questions that research on the neural correlates of social comparison could address. (c) 2014 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Kedia, Gayannee UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-0163-0867 UNSPECIFIED Mussweiler, Thomas UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Linden, David E. J. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-423398
DOI:	10.1097/WNR.0000000000000255
Journal or Publication Title:	Neuroreport
Volume:	25
Number:	16
Page Range:	S. 1255 - 1266
Date:	2014
Publisher:	LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
Place of Publication:	PHILADELPHIA
ISSN:	1473-558X
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language FEEDBACK-RELATED NEGATIVITY; NEURAL REPRESENTATIONS; ORBITOFRONTAL CORTEX; EATING-DISORDER; SELF; JUDGMENT; NUMBER; OTHERS; DETERMINANTS; EXPECTATIONS Multiple languages Neurosciences Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/42339