What they bring: baseline psychological distress differentially predicts neural response in social exclusion by children’s friends and strangers in best friend dyads
Baddam S, Laws H, Crawford JL, Wu J, Bolling DZ, Mayes LC, Crowley MJ. What they bring: baseline psychological distress differentially predicts neural response in social exclusion by children’s friends and strangers in best friend dyads. Social Cognitive And Affective Neuroscience 2016, 11: 1729-1740. PMID: 27330184, PMCID: PMC5091675, DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsw083.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLarger neural responsesEvent-related potentialsPsychological distressNeural responsesMiddle childhoodGreater psychological distressSocial exclusionBest friend dyadsPsychological distress levelsBaseline psychological distressSocial exclusion paradigmHierarchical linear modelingERP responsesUnfamiliar peersNeural correlatesLarger P2Slow wave responseEffect of friendsUnfamiliar playersFriendship dyadsFriend dyadsExclusion paradigmChild's friendsDistress levelsBest friend