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Aggression differentially modulates neural correlates of social intention attribution to benevolent, tickling and taunting laughter: An fMRI study in children and adolescents
- Source :
- Social neuroscience. 16(3)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Human laughter is a powerful means of communicating social intention, ranging from welcoming and friendly to hostile and ridiculing. To be communicated accurately, the recipient must correctly identify the laugher's underlying social intention. Regular misattribution of the social intention of others has been associated with maladaptive psychosocial development, in particular with aggressive behavior. We investigated the relationship between self-reported aggressive behavior and the neural correlates of social intention attributions to different audiovisual laughter types in 50 healthy children and adolescents (29 female, 10-18 years, M 15.5, SD 2.2) using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Trial-by-trial associations of neural response and behavioral attributions were distinctly modulated by aggression for benevolent versus taunting and tickling laughter. With increasing aggression, hostile misattributions of benevolent laughter were associated with decreased dorsolateral prefrontal and anterior insular cortex activation. In contrast, hostile attributions of taunting and tickling laughter were associated with increased superior frontal, superior temporal, medial prefrontal, supplementary motor, and anterior and mid-cingulate cortex activation. We argue that aggression may be associated with down-regulated emotional saliency of benevolent laughter, whereas up-regulated neural responses to taunting laughter may underlie a heightened sensitivity to hostility or acceptance of taunting behavior in more aggressive individuals.
- Subjects :
- Social Psychology
Adolescent
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Intention
Development
050105 experimental psychology
Developmental psychology
Laughter
03 medical and health sciences
Behavioral Neuroscience
0302 clinical medicine
Hostility
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Child
media_common
Social intention
Neural correlates of consciousness
Aggression
05 social sciences
Tickling
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Social Perception
ComputerApplications_GENERAL
Female
medicine.symptom
Attribution
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17470927
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Social neuroscience
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7329c428aa46245309f38679a4e66f5e