PMID- 35504857 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220629 LR - 20220809 IS - 1747-0927 (Electronic) IS - 1747-0919 (Linking) VI - 17 IP - 3 DP - 2022 Jun TI - Medial prefrontal activity during self-other judgments is modulated by relationship need fulfillment. PG - 236-245 LID - 10.1080/17470919.2022.2074135 [doi] AB - The medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) plays an important role in representing semantic self-knowledge. Studies comparing semantic self-judgments with judgments of close others suggest that interpersonal closeness may influence the degree to which the MPFC differentiates self and other. We used optical neuroimaging to examine if support for competence, relatedness, and autonomy from relationship partners moderates MPFC activity during a personality judgment task. Participants (N = 109) were asked to judge the descriptive accuracy of trait adjectives for both themselves and a friend. Participants who reported lower need fulfillment with their friend showed elevated activity only in the self-judgment condition; in contrast, participants who reported higher need fulfillment with their friend showed similarly high levels of MPFC activity across the conditions. These results are consistent with the idea that the MPFC differentially represents others on the basis of the need fulfillment experienced within the relationship. FAU - Di Domenico, Stefano I AU - Di Domenico SI AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7137-7364 AD - Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada. FAU - Fournier, Marc A AU - Fournier MA AD - Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada. FAU - Rodrigo, Achala H AU - Rodrigo AH AD - Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada. FAU - Dong, Mengxi AU - Dong M AD - Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada. FAU - Ayaz, Hasan AU - Ayaz H AD - School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Drexel University, United States of America. AD - Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences, Drexel University, United States of America. AD - Drexel Solutions Institute, Drexel University. AD - Department of Family and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. AD - Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. FAU - Ryan, Richard M AU - Ryan RM AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2355-6154 AD - Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, Australian Catholic University, Australia. FAU - Ruocco, Anthony C AU - Ruocco AC AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1942-7181 AD - Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220510 PL - England TA - Soc Neurosci JT - Social neuroscience JID - 101279009 SB - IM MH - *Brain Mapping MH - Humans MH - *Judgment MH - Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods MH - Prefrontal Cortex/diagnostic imaging MH - Self Concept OTO - NOTNLM OT - Basic psychological needs OT - medial prefrontal cortex OT - relationships OT - self-determination theory OT - self-referential processes EDAT- 2022/05/04 06:00 MHDA- 2022/06/30 06:00 CRDT- 2022/05/03 22:52 PHST- 2022/05/04 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/06/30 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/05/03 22:52 [entrez] AID - 10.1080/17470919.2022.2074135 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Soc Neurosci. 2022 Jun;17(3):236-245. doi: 10.1080/17470919.2022.2074135. Epub 2022 May 10.