Center for Human Evolution and Behavior, UCM-ISCIII, Madrid, Spain.
Departamento de Psicobiología y Metodología de las Ciencias del Comportamiento, Universidad Complutense De Madrid, Spain.
Soc Neurosci. 2021 Apr;16(2):153-165. doi: 10.1080/17470919.2021.1879255. Epub 2021 Feb 10.
In the present study, we investigate whether subliminal complex social cues have an impact on error-monitoring processes. For this purpose, we presented two social status ranks (high and low) with three possible emotional expressions (happy, neutral, angry), using a backward masking paradigm. Participants were instructed to perform a flanker task while recording Event-Related brain Potentials. Results showed larger amplitudes for the Error-Related Negativity index after the presentation of high relative to low social ranks, only for neutral expressions. Neither the angry nor the happy faces induced significant differences in social rank processing. This indicates that subliminal high social ranks, specifically with neutral expressions, increase error processing by boosting attentional control to perform the ongoing task. Our findings extend current knowledge on the automaticity of social and emotional processing and its influence on performance monitoring mechanisms.
在本研究中，我们探讨了潜意识复杂社会线索是否会对错误监测过程产生影响。为此，我们使用了一种回溯掩蔽范式呈现了两种社会地位等级（高和低）和三种可能的情绪表达（高兴、中性、愤怒）。参与者被指示在记录事件相关脑电波的同时执行侧抑制任务。结果表明，在呈现高社会等级后，中性表情的错误相关负向波（Error-Related Negativity index）的振幅更大。只有中性表情的面孔会导致社会等级处理的显著差异，而愤怒和高兴的面孔则不会。这表明，潜意识的高社会等级，特别是中性表情，通过提高注意力控制来执行正在进行的任务，从而增加了错误处理。我们的发现扩展了关于社会和情感处理的自动性及其对绩效监测机制的影响的现有知识。
