I feel good whether my friends win or my foes lose: brain mechanisms underlying feeling similarity.

Aue, Tatjana (2014). I feel good whether my friends win or my foes lose: brain mechanisms underlying feeling similarity. Neuropsychologia, 60, pp. 159-167. Elsevier 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.05.025

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People say they enjoy both seeing a preferred social group succeed and seeing an adversary social group fail. At the same time, they state they dislike seeing a preferred social group fail and seeing an adversary social group succeed. The current magnetic resonance imaging study investigated whether-and if so, how-such similarities in reported feeling states are reflected in neural activities. American football fans anticipated success and failure situations for their favorite or their adversary teams. The data support the idea that feeling similarities and divergences expressed in verbal reports carry with them significant neural similarities and differences, respectively. Desired (favorite team likely to win and adversary team likely to lose) rather than undesired (favorite team likely to lose and adversary team likely to win) outcomes were associated with heightened activity in the supramarginal gyrus, posterior cingulate cortex, insula, and cerebellum. Precuneus activity additionally distinguished anticipated desirable outcomes for favorite versus adversary teams.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Psychological and Behavioral Health

UniBE Contributor:

Aue, Tatjana

Subjects:

100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health
500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology

ISSN:

0028-3932

Publisher:

Elsevier

Funders:

[UNSPECIFIED] National Institute of Mental Health

Language:

English

Submitter:

Tatjana Aue Seil

Date Deposited:

24 Aug 2015 11:59

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:49

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.05.025

PubMed ID:

24912072

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Desirability; Failure; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Social groups; Success

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.71216

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/71216

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