Emotional face prediction in rejection sensitive individuals: Evidence from event-related potentials.

Emotional face prediction in rejection sensitive individuals: Evidence from event-related potentials.
Conscious Cogn. 2020 Jan 16;78:102880
Authors: Ran G, Li R, Zhang Q
Abstract
Human beings live in an uncertain world, but they continuously generate top-down predictions about emotional face information of other people around them. Although the prediction processing has repeatedly been investigated in the literature of prediction, little is known about the impact of rejection sensitive (RS) on individuals' emotional face prediction. To this end, high and low RS participants were asked to perform an identification task of emotional faces in which target faces were shown in either an angry or happy expression while their brain responses were recorded using an event-related potential (ERP) technique. The behavioral results suggested an effect of emotional face prediction. For the P100 component, low RS participants showed longer P100 peak latencies in the left than right hemisphere when they viewed predictable emotional faces. In addition, low RS participants showed larger N170 mean amplitudes for angry compared to happy faces when they perceived unpredictable faces, but not when these faces were predictable. This presumably reflected a sensibility to angry faces in the unpredictable trails. Interestingly, high RS participants did not demonstrate such a N170 difference, suggesting that high RS participants showed a reduced sensitivity t...

Source: Consciousness and Cognition - January 15, 2020 Category: Neurology Authors: Ran G, Li R, Zhang Q Tags: Conscious Cogn Source Type: research