Social groups played an important role in human evolution and social networks continue to be a major part of human life. These studies describe how the brain has specific areas for understanding social situations and processing social hierarchies.
A neural mechanism of first impressions. (Link)
Attitudes towards the outgroup are predicted by activity in the precuneus in Arabs and Israelis. (Link)
Dopamine type 2/3 receptor availability in the striatum and social status in human volunteers. (Link)
Following the crowd: brain substrates of long-term memory conformity. (Link)
How the opinion of others affects our valuation of objects. (Link)
Implicit signals in small group settings and their impact on the expression of cognitive capacity and associated brain responses. (Link)
Know your place: neural processing of social hierarchy in humans. (Link)
Medial prefrontal cortex and striatum mediate the influence of social comparison on the decision process. (Link)
Neural basis of preference for human social hierarchy versus egalitarianism. (Link)
Neural evidence for inequality-averse social preferences. (Link)
Neural sensitivity to social rejection is associated with inflammatory responses to social stress. (Link)
Neural systems of social comparison and the “above-average” effect. (Link)
Online social network size is reflected in human brain structure. (Link)
Orbital prefrontal cortex volume predicts social network size: an imaging study of individual differences in humans. (Link)
Processing of the incentive for social approval in the ventral striatum during charitable donation. (Link)
Structure of orbitofrontal cortex predicts social influence. (Link)
Subjective socioeconomic status predicts human ventral striatal responses to social status information. (Link)
When giving is good: ventromedial prefrontal cortex activation for others’ intentions. (Link)
