Department of Cognition, Development and Education Psychology, University of Barcelona.
Institute of Neuroscience (UBNeuro), University of Barcelona.
Cogn Sci. 2024 Nov;48(11):e70017. doi: 10.1111/cogs.70017.
Our self-concept is constantly faced with self-relevant information. Prevailing research suggests that information's valence plays a central role in shaping our self-views. However, the need for stability within the self-concept structure and the inherent alignment of positive feedback with the pre-existing self-views of healthy individuals might mask valence and congruence effects. In this study (N = 30, undergraduates), we orthogonalized feedback valence and self-congruence effects to examine the behavioral and electrophysiological signatures of self-relevant feedback processing and self-concept updating. We found that participants had a preference for integrating self-congruent and dismissing self-incongruent feedback, regardless of its valence. Consistently, electroencephalography results revealed that feedback congruence, but not feedback valence, is rapidly detected during early processing stages. Our findings diverge from the accepted notion that self-concept updating is based on the selective incorporation of positive information. These findings offer novel insights into self-concept dynamics, with implications for the understanding of psychopathological conditions.
我们的自我概念不断面临与自我相关的信息。主流研究表明，信息的效价在塑造我们的自我观点方面起着核心作用。然而，自我概念结构中稳定性的需求以及健康个体的积极反馈与预先存在的自我观点的内在一致性可能掩盖了效价和一致性效应。在这项研究中（N=30，本科生），我们将反馈效价和自我一致性效应正交化，以检查自我相关反馈处理和自我概念更新的行为和电生理特征。我们发现，参与者更喜欢整合自我一致的和忽略自我不一致的反馈，而不考虑其效价。一致地，脑电图结果表明，反馈一致性而不是反馈效价在早期处理阶段就被快速检测到。我们的发现与自我概念更新基于选择性纳入积极信息的公认观点不同。这些发现为自我概念动态提供了新的见解，对理解心理病理状况具有重要意义。
