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Pin-Hao A Chen1, Paul J Whalen1, Jonathan B Freeman2, James M Taylor1, Todd F Heatherton1.
Abstract
This study examined whether neural responses in the ventral striatum (VS) to in-group facial expressions-presented without explicit awareness-could predict friendship patterns in newly arrived individuals from China six months later. Individuals who initially showed greater VS activity in response to in-group happy expressions during functional neuroimaging later made considerably more in-group friends, suggesting that VS activity might reflect reward processes that drive in-group approach behaviors.Entities:
Keywords: acculturation; fMRI; face; friendship; reward
Year: 2015 PMID: 26185595 PMCID: PMC4501035 DOI: 10.1177/1948550614566093
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Soc Psychol Personal Sci ISSN: 1948-5506