Journal
EMOTION
Volume 7, Issue 4, Pages 745-754Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.7.4.745
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fMRI; experience-sampling; social rejection; neural; real-world social experience; momentary versus retrospective reports of affect
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- NIMH NIH HHS [T32MH019925, R21MH071521-01, R21MH66709-01] Funding Source: Medline
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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.
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