TY  - JOUR
A1  - Prehn, Kristin
A1  - Korn, Christoph W.
A1  - Bajbouj, Malek
A1  - Klann-Delius, Gisela
A1  - Menninghaus, Winfried
A1  - Jacobs, Arthur M.
A1  - Heekeren, Hauke R.
T1  - The neural correlates of emotion alignment in social interaction
T2  - Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
N2  - Talking about emotion and sharing emotional experiences is a key component of human interaction. Specifically, individuals often consider the reactions of other people when evaluating the meaning and impact of an emotional stimulus. It has not yet been investigated, however, how emotional arousal ratings and physiological responses elicited by affective stimuli are influenced by the rating of an interaction partner. In the present study, pairs of participants were asked to rate and communicate the degree of their emotional arousal while viewing affective pictures. Strikingly, participants adjusted their arousal ratings to match up with their interaction partner. In anticipation of the affective picture, the interaction partner’s arousal ratings correlated positively with activity in anterior insula and prefrontal cortex. During picture presentation, social influence was reflected in the ventral striatum, that is, activity in the ventral striatum correlated negatively with the interaction partner’s ratings. Results of the study show that emotional alignment through the influence of another person’s communicated experience has to be considered as a complex phenomenon integrating different components including emotion anticipation and conformity.
KW  - social influence
KW  - conformity
KW  - emotion regulation
KW  - IAPS
KW  - fMRI
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/50599
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-505990
SN  - 1749-5024
SN  - 1749-5016
N1  - This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
VL  - 10
IS  - 3
SP  - 435
EP  - 443
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  -