Social evaluations under conflict: negative judgments of conflicting information are easier than positive judgments.
In: Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, Jg. 14 (2019-07-01), Heft 7, S. 709-718
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In the current study, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate how the brain facilitates social judgments despite evaluatively conflicting information. Participants learned consistent (positive or negative) and ambivalent (positive and negative) person information and were then asked to provide binary judgments of these targets in situations that either resolved conflict by prioritizing a subset of information or not. Self-report, decision time and brain data confirm that integrating contextual information into our evaluations of objects or people allows for nuanced (social) evaluations. The same mixed trait information elicited or failed to elicit evaluative conflict dependent on the situation. Crucially, we provide data suggesting that negative judgments are easier and may be considered the 'default' action when experiencing evaluative conflict: weaker activation in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during trials of evaluative conflict was related to a greater likelihood of unfavorable judgments, and greater activation was related to more favorable judgments. Since negative outcome consequences are arguably more detrimental and salient, this finding supports the idea that additional regulation and a more active selection process are necessary to override an initial negative response to evaluatively conflicting information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Social evaluations under conflict: negative judgments of conflicting information are easier than positive judgments.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Nohlen, Hannah U ; Harreveld, Frenk van ; Cunningham, William A |
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Zeitschrift: | Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, Jg. 14 (2019-07-01), Heft 7, S. 709-718 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2019 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 1749-5016 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1093/scan/nsz045 |
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