Citation

Welborn BL, Lieberman MD, Goldenberg D, Fuligni AJ, Galvan A, Telzer EH. Soc. Cogn. Affect. Neurosci. 2015; 11(1): 100-109.

Affiliation

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign ehtelzer@illinois.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Oxford University Press)

DOI

10.1093/scan/nsv095

PMID

26203050

Abstract

During the transformative period of adolescence, social influence plays a prominent role in shaping young people's emerging social identities, and can impact their propensity to engage in prosocial or risky behaviors. In the present study, we examine the neural correlates of social influence from both parents and peers, two important sources of influence. Nineteen adolescents (age 16-18 years) completed a social influence task during an fMRI scan. Social influence from both sources evoked activity in brain regions implicated in mentalizing (MPFC, RTPJ, LTPJ), reward (VMPFC), and self-control (RVLPFC). These results suggest that mental state reasoning, social reward, and self-control processes may help adolescents to evaluate others' perspectives and overcome the prepotent force of their own antecedent attitudes in order to shift their attitudes towards those of others.

FINDINGS suggest common neural networks involved in social influence from both parents and peers.

Language: en