title: Neural sensitivity to social deviance predicts attentive processing of peer-group judgment.
abstract: The detection of one's deviance from social norms is an essential mechanism of individual adjustment to group behavior and, thus, for the perpetuation of norms within groups. It has been suggested that error signals in mediofrontal cortex provide the neural basis of such deviance detection, which contributes to later adjustment to the norm. In the present study, we used event-related potentials (ERPs) to demonstrate that, across participants, the strength of mediofrontal brain correlates of the detection of deviance from a peer group's norms was negatively related to attentive processing of the same group's judgments in a later task. We propose that an individual's perception of social deviance might bias basic cognitive processing during further interaction with the group. Strongly perceiving disagreement with a group could cause an individual to avoid or inhibit this group's judgments.
authors: a Department of Psychology , University of Bonn , Bonn , Germany.
authors: Robert
authors: R
authors: Schnuerch
authors: Sina Alexa
authors: SA
authors: Trautmann-Lengsfeld
authors: Mario
authors: M
authors: Bertram
authors: Henning
authors: H
authors: Gibbons
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010379:Peer Group; D012919:Social Behavior
keywords: Conflict; FRN; Social deviance; Social norms; pMFC