| Literature DB >> 27867367 |
Huijun Zhang1, Lei Mo1.
Abstract
Microblogs is one of the main social networking channels by which information is spread. Among them, Sina Weibo is one of the largest social networking channels in China. Millions of users repost information from Sina Weibo and share embedded emotion at the same time. The present study investigated participants' propensity to repost microblog messages of positive, negative, or neutral valence, and studied the neural correlates during resting state with the reposting rate of each type microblog messages. Participants preferred to repost negative messages relative to positive and neutral messages. Reposting rate of negative messages was positively correlated to the functional connectivity of temporoparietal junction (TPJ) with insula, and TPJ with dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. These results indicate that reposting negative messages is related to conflict resolution between the feeling of pain/disgust and the intention to repost significant information. Thus, resposting emotional microblog messages might be attributed to participants' appraisal of personal and recipient's interest, as well as their cognitive process for decision making.Entities:
Keywords: emotion; functional connectivity; information propagation; mentalizing; microblog; rs-fMRI; social sharing
Year: 2016 PMID: 27867367 PMCID: PMC5095504 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01716
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Front Psychol ISSN: 1664-1078
Average ratings toward three categories of microblog messages and average length.
| Valence | Arousal | Familiarity | Length (characters) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | 5.22 ± 0.32 | 5.12 ± 0.27 | 2.29 ± 0.59 | 109.27 |
| Negative | 2.24 ± 0.58 | 5.08 ± 0.39 | 2.43 ± 0.82 | 111.33 |
| Neutral | 3.97 ± 0.30 | 3.80 ± 0.43 | 2.05 ± 0.51 | 107.33 |
rs-fcMRI results for mentalizing seeds [Gaussian Random Field theory (GRF) corrected voxel threshold: | Z| > 2.32, cluster-level threshold: p < 0.05].
| Cluster-level | Peak-level | MNI coordinates (mm) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Right Superior | 0.001 | 242 | 0.000 | 4.55 | 3.87 | 48 | -15 | 3 |
| Temporal Lobe | 0.000 | 4.05 | 3.53 | 51 | -3 | 3 | ||
| (BA 48) | 0.000 | 3.73 | 3.31 | 63 | 12 | 15 | ||
| Left Middle | 0.000 | 252 | 0.000 | 5.31 | 4.33 | -30 | 30 | 39 |
| Frontal Lobe | 0.000 | 3.94 | 3.46 | -48 | 33 | 3 | ||
| (BA 9) | 0.000 | 3.81 | 3.36 | -36 | 27 | 12 | ||
| Right Insula | 0.000 | 273 | 0.000 | 3.90 | 3.43 | 39 | 3 | -9 |
| (BA 48) | 0.000 | 3.82 | 3.37 | 51 | -6 | 0 | ||
| Left MOFC | 0.003 | 167 | 0.000 | 4.77 | 4.01 | -6 | 33 | -15 |
| (BA 11) | 0.001 | 3.55 | 3.18 | -15 | 27 | -15 | ||
| 0.001 | 3.38 | 3.05 | 9 | 33 | -15 | |||
| Left VLOFC | 0.001 | 260 | 0.000 | 4.79 | 4.02 | -30 | 39 | -9 |
| (BA 11) | 0.000 | 4.11 | 3.58 | -24 | 51 | -15 | ||
| 0.000 | 3.76 | 3.33 | -24 | 30 | -9 | |||
| Left DMPFC | ||||||||
| (BA 32) | 0.000 | 274 | 0.000 | 4.65 | 3.93 | -12 | 33 | 33 |