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What shall I be, what must I be: neural correlates of personal goal activation

How is the brain engaged when people are thinking about their hopes, dreams, and obligations? Regulatory focus theory postulates two classes of personal goals and motivational systems for pursuing them. Ideal goals, such as hopes and aspirations, are pursued via the promotion system through “making...

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Autores principales: Strauman, Timothy J., Detloff, Allison M., Sestokas, Rima, Smith, David V., Goetz, Elena L., Rivera, Christine, Kwapil, Lori
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3539852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23316145
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2012.00123
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author Strauman, Timothy J.
Detloff, Allison M.
Sestokas, Rima
Smith, David V.
Goetz, Elena L.
Rivera, Christine
Kwapil, Lori
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Detloff, Allison M.
Sestokas, Rima
Smith, David V.
Goetz, Elena L.
Rivera, Christine
Kwapil, Lori
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description How is the brain engaged when people are thinking about their hopes, dreams, and obligations? Regulatory focus theory postulates two classes of personal goals and motivational systems for pursuing them. Ideal goals, such as hopes and aspirations, are pursued via the promotion system through “making good things happen.” Ought goals, such as obligations or responsibilities, are pursued via the prevention system through “keeping bad things from happening.” This study investigated the neural correlates of ideal and ought goal priming using an event-related fMRI design with rapid masked stimulus presentations. We exposed participants to their self-identified ideal and ought goals, yoked-control words and non-words. We also examined correlations between goal-related activation and measures of regulatory focus, behavioral activation/inhibition, and negative affect. Ideal priming led to activation in frontal and occipital regions as well as caudate and thalamus, whereas prevention goal priming was associated with activation in precuneus and posterior cingulate cortex. Individual differences in dysphoric/anxious affect and regulatory focus, but not differences in BAS/BIS strength, were predictive of differential activation in response to goal priming. The regions activated in response to ideal and ought goal priming broadly map onto the cortical midline network that has been shown to index processing of self-referential stimuli. Individual differences in regulatory focus and negative affect impact this network and appeared to influence the strength and accessibility of the promotion and prevention systems. The results support a fundamental distinction between promotion and prevention and extend our understanding of how personal goals influence behavior.
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spelling pubmed-35398522013-01-11 What shall I be, what must I be: neural correlates of personal goal activation Strauman, Timothy J. Detloff, Allison M. Sestokas, Rima Smith, David V. Goetz, Elena L. Rivera, Christine Kwapil, Lori Front Integr Neurosci Neuroscience How is the brain engaged when people are thinking about their hopes, dreams, and obligations? Regulatory focus theory postulates two classes of personal goals and motivational systems for pursuing them. Ideal goals, such as hopes and aspirations, are pursued via the promotion system through “making good things happen.” Ought goals, such as obligations or responsibilities, are pursued via the prevention system through “keeping bad things from happening.” This study investigated the neural correlates of ideal and ought goal priming using an event-related fMRI design with rapid masked stimulus presentations. We exposed participants to their self-identified ideal and ought goals, yoked-control words and non-words. We also examined correlations between goal-related activation and measures of regulatory focus, behavioral activation/inhibition, and negative affect. Ideal priming led to activation in frontal and occipital regions as well as caudate and thalamus, whereas prevention goal priming was associated with activation in precuneus and posterior cingulate cortex. Individual differences in dysphoric/anxious affect and regulatory focus, but not differences in BAS/BIS strength, were predictive of differential activation in response to goal priming. The regions activated in response to ideal and ought goal priming broadly map onto the cortical midline network that has been shown to index processing of self-referential stimuli. Individual differences in regulatory focus and negative affect impact this network and appeared to influence the strength and accessibility of the promotion and prevention systems. The results support a fundamental distinction between promotion and prevention and extend our understanding of how personal goals influence behavior. Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3539852/ /pubmed/23316145 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2012.00123 Text en Copyright © 2013 Strauman, Detloff, Sestokas, Smith, Goetz, Rivera and Kwapil. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited and subject to any copyright notices concerning any third-party graphics etc.
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Kwapil, Lori
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title_sort what shall i be, what must i be: neural correlates of personal goal activation
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2012.00123
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