van der Meulen, M;
Steinbeis, N;
Achterberg, M;
van IJzendoorn, MH;
Crone, EA;
(2018)
Heritability of neural reactions to social exclusion and prosocial compensation in middle childhood.
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
, 34
pp. 42-52.
10.1016/j.dcn.2018.05.010.
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Abstract
Experiencing and observing social exclusion and inclusion, as well as prosocial behavior, are important aspects of social relationships in childhood. However, it is currently unknown to what extent these processes and their neural correlates differ in heritability. We investigated influences of genetics and environment on experiencing social exclusion and compensating for social exclusion of others with the Prosocial Cyberball Game using fMRI in a twin sample (aged 7–9; N = 500). Neuroimaging analyses (N = 283) revealed that experiencing possible self-exclusion resulted in activity in inferior frontal gyrus and medial prefrontal cortex, which was influenced by genetics and unique environment. Experiencing self-inclusion was associated with activity in anterior cingulate cortex, insula and striatum, but this was not significantly explained by genetics or shared environment. We found that children show prosocial compensating behavior when observing social exclusion. Prosocial compensating behavior was associated with activity in posterior cingulate cortex/precuneus, and showed unique environmental effects or measurement error at both behavioral and neural level. Together, these findings show that in children neural activation for experiencing possible self-exclusion and self-inclusion, and for displaying prosocial compensating behavior, is accounted for by unique environmental factors and measurement error, with a small genetic effect on possible self-exclusion.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Heritability of neural reactions to social exclusion and prosocial compensation in middle childhood |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.dcn.2018.05.010 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2018.05.010 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY-NC-ND/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Social Sciences, Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Psychology, Developmental, Neurosciences, Psychology, Neurosciences & Neurology, Social exclusion, Prosocial behavior, fMRI, Childhood, Heritability, ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX, SURFACE-BASED ANALYSIS, PEER REJECTION, BRAIN NETWORKS, BEHAVIOR, OSTRACISM, RESPONSES, REWARD, INTENTIONALITY, SEGMENTATION |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10089964 |
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