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Culturally Mediated Self Evaluation Processes in the Prefrontal Cortex

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Woodward, Everett Role :Text(marcrelator)
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Department of Psychology; Dr. Daren Jackson and Nick Schwab Role :Text(marcrelator)
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Laramie, Wyoming
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2008-04-23

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Cultural psychology continues to note culture’s profound impact on the construction of self and how we respond to self-relevant information. However, to date there has been limited empirical work examining how cultural influences are encoded neurally. Attempting to better understand the neural representation of culturally mediated responding, the present study integrated work on approach and avoidance processes within the prefrontal cortex with cross-cultural work on self-evaluation. We hypothesized that American participants primed with American cultural icons would show greater cortical approach response (relative left PFC activity) to self-enhancing feedback and a greater cortical avoidance response (relative right PFC activity) to self-threatening information. Continuous electroencephalography (EEG) was recorded while American participants, primed either with American cultural icons or neutral icons, were told they performed either well or poorly on a creativity task. There was a trend for a main effect of feedback, with negative feedback resulting in greater relative right PFC activity. There was also a main effect for priming condition, with participants receiving an American prime showing greater relative right PFC activity regardless of feedback type. Finally, there was a significant interaction between priming condition and feedback, with culturally primed participants showing greater relative right PFC activity following negative feedback. note
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Self-perception--Social aspects; Neuropsychology--Research

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