Müller-Pinzler Laura, Krach Sören, Krämer Ulrike M, Paulus Frieder M
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Social Neuroscience Lab, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538, Lübeck, Germany.
Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538, Lübeck, Germany.
Curr Top Behav Neurosci. 2017;30:241-256. doi: 10.1007/7854_2016_437.
In our daily lives, we constantly engage in reciprocal interactions with other individuals and represent ourselves in the context of our surrounding social world. Within social interactions, humans often experience interpersonal emotions such as embarrassment, shame, guilt, or pride. How interpersonal emotions are processed on the neural systems level is of major interest for social neuroscience research. While the configuration of laboratory settings in general is constraining for emotion research, recent neuroimaging investigations came up with new approaches to implement socially interactive and immersive scenarios for the real-life investigation of interpersonal emotions. These studies could show that among other brain regions the so-called mentalizing network, which is typically involved when we represent and make sense of others' states of mind, is associated with interpersonal emotions. The anterior insula/anterior cingulate cortex network at the same time processes one's own bodily arousal during such interpersonal emotional experiences. Current research aimed to explore how we make sense of others' emotional states during social interactions and investigates the modulating factors of our emotional experiences during social interactions. Understanding how interpersonal emotions are processed on the neural systems level may yield significant implications for neuropsychiatric disorders that affect social behavior such as social anxiety disorders or autism.
在日常生活中，我们不断与他人进行相互作用，并在周围社会世界的背景下展现自我。在社交互动中，人类经常会体验到诸如尴尬、羞耻、内疚或自豪等人际情感。人际情感在神经系统层面是如何被处理的，是社会神经科学研究的主要兴趣所在。虽然一般来说实验室环境的设置对情感研究有一定限制，但最近的神经成像研究提出了新的方法，以实现用于人际情感现实生活研究的社交互动和沉浸式场景。这些研究表明，在其他脑区中，所谓的心理化网络（当我们表征和理解他人的心理状态时通常会涉及）与人际情感有关。同时，在前岛叶/前扣带回皮质网络在这种人际情感体验过程中处理自身的身体唤醒。当前的研究旨在探索我们在社交互动中如何理解他人的情绪状态，并调查社交互动中我们情感体验的调节因素。了解人际情感在神经系统层面是如何被处理的，可能会对影响社会行为的神经精神疾病（如社交焦虑症或自闭症）产生重大影响。
