Automatic and intentional brain responses during evaluation of trustworthiness of faces
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- DOI: 10.1038/nn816
Automatic and intentional brain responses during evaluation of trustworthiness of faces
Abstract
Successful social interaction partly depends on appraisal of others from their facial appearance. A critical aspect of this appraisal relates to whether we consider others to be trustworthy. We determined the neural basis for such trustworthiness judgments using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging. Subjects viewed faces and assessed either trustworthiness or age. In a parametric factorial design, trustworthiness ratings were correlated with BOLD signal change to reveal task-independent increased activity in bilateral amygdala and right insula in response to faces judged untrustworthy. Right superior temporal sulcus (STS) showed enhanced signal change during explicit trustworthiness judgments alone. The findings extend a proposed model of social cognition by highlighting a functional dissociation between automatic engagement of amygdala versus intentional engagement of STS in social judgment.
Comment in
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Trust in the brain.Nat Neurosci. 2002 Mar;5(3):192-3. doi: 10.1038/nn0302-192. Nat Neurosci. 2002. PMID: 11865307 No abstract available.
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