Submission 502
How Social Evaluative Feedback Shapes Social Evolution: Neuronal and Behavioral Measures
MixedTopicTalk-03
Presented by: Sebastian Schindler
Social evaluations in interactions are a primary aspect of communicating with others, as they reveal how we judge others and how they judge us. The exchange of evaluations allows us to make self- and other-related updates, yet the processes of aligning and integrating social evaluative feedback in realistic interaction scenarios are largely lacking. I will provide an overview of three recent studies examining how social evaluative feedback alters the self-view, the feedback sender's opinion, and feedback expectations. In these studies, participants rated themselves on 180 trait adjectives, depending on the study, either in a first session or immediately after a real social interaction, and received feedback from senders with different supposed characteristics (experts, peers, computer). The feedback on the adjectives was manipulated to be worse, congruent, or better than the participants' self-ratings, while EEG was recorded. I will include relationships between updating and Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) from EEG, as well as between ERPs and hemodynamic responses from ongoing EEG-fMRI studies. Finally, the pathological mechanisms underlying the altered integration of social evaluative feedback will be addressed. Specifically, the role of depressive symptoms in fostering a lower integration of positive feedback and better integration of negative feedback will be presented. The results contribute to a deeper understanding of how individuals process and integrate social evaluative feedback and its relation to neuronal responses and pathological symptoms.