Nucleus accumbens response to gains in reputation for the self relative to gains for others predicts social media use

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Meshi, Dar ^a,b,c   Morawetz, Carmen ^a,b   Heekeren, Hauke R ^a,b,c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Dahlem Institute for Neuroimaging of Emotion   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Facebook; FMRI; Impression management; Individual differences; Nucleus accumbens; Reputation; Social media; Social reward

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MONEY; MOTIVATION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREDICTION; REWARD; SELF CONCEPT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84933680119     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00439     Document Type: Article

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