PMID- 18417363
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20080710
LR  - 20080526
IS  - 1090-2376 (Electronic)
IS  - 1053-8100 (Linking)
VI  - 17
IP  - 2
DP  - 2008 Jun
TI  - Elucidating the neural correlates of egoistic and moralistic self-enhancement.
PG  - 451-6
LID - 10.1016/j.concog.2008.03.006 [doi]
AB  - Self-enhancement is the biasing of one's view of oneself in a positive direction. 
      The brain correlates of self-enhancement remain unclear though it has been 
      reported that the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) may be important for producing 
      self-enhancing responses. Previous studies have not examined whether the neural 
      correlates of self-enhancement depend on the particular domain in which 
      individuals are enhancing themselves. Both moralistic and egoistic words were 
      presented to participants while transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was 
      applied to the MPFC, precuneus or in a sham orientation. Participants were asked 
      to make decisions as to the words describing themselves, some of which were 
      positive and some of which were negative. It was found the MPFC TMS significantly 
      disrupted egoistic self-enhancement when TMS was delivered to the MPFC. Judgments 
      involving moralistic words were not influenced by TMS. These data provide further 
      evidence that MPFC is involved in self-enhancement, and that the role of MPFC may 
      be selective in this regard.
FAU - Barrios, Veronica
AU  - Barrios V
AD  - Cognitive Neuroimaging Laboratory, Montclair State University, 219 Dickson Hall, 
      Upper Montclair, NJ 07043, USA.
FAU - Kwan, Virginia S Y
AU  - Kwan VS
FAU - Ganis, Giorgio
AU  - Ganis G
FAU - Gorman, Jaime
AU  - Gorman J
FAU - Romanowski, Jennifer
AU  - Romanowski J
FAU - Keenan, Julian Paul
AU  - Keenan JP
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20080415
PL  - United States
TA  - Conscious Cogn
JT  - Consciousness and cognition
JID - 9303140
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Decision Making
MH  - *Ego
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Morals
MH  - *Self Concept
MH  - Semantics
MH  - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
EDAT- 2008/04/18 09:00
MHDA- 2008/07/11 09:00
CRDT- 2008/04/18 09:00
PHST- 2008/02/28 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2008/03/04 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2008/04/18 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/07/11 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2008/04/18 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S1053-8100(08)00039-1 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.concog.2008.03.006 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Conscious Cogn. 2008 Jun;17(2):451-6. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2008.03.006. Epub 
      2008 Apr 15.