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Living in a Disadvantaged Neighborhood Affects Neural Processing of Facial Trustworthiness
Neighborhood disorder (i.e., physical or social decay) is associated with decreased trust, which reinforces criminal behavior among some individuals in these communities. However, past research largely is descriptive and has not measured processes underlying trust. Using behavioral and neural indice...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7115212/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32273859 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00409 |
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author | Chang, Shou-An A. Baskin-Sommers, Arielle |
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description | Neighborhood disorder (i.e., physical or social decay) is associated with decreased trust, which reinforces criminal behavior among some individuals in these communities. However, past research largely is descriptive and has not measured processes underlying trust. Using behavioral and neural indices [the late positive potential (LPP), a marker of salience elaboration] in a sample of adults (N = 55), we examined the association between perceived neighborhood disorder and facial trustworthiness perception as well as the potential moderating role of trustworthiness perception on the association between PND and criminal behavior. Individuals with higher perceived neighborhood disorder displayed less LPP differentiation between untrustworthy and trustworthy faces. Moreover, individuals with higher perceived neighborhood disorder and less LPP differentiation were less likely to commit a variety of crimes, whereas those with higher perceptions of neighborhood disorder and high LPP differentiation were more likely to commit a variety of crimes. Combined, these findings suggest that similarly processing trustworthy and untrustworthy faces, as indexed by less LPP differentiation, may reflect an adaptation among those with higher perceived neighborhood disorder that mitigates against deviant behavior and contacts with the law. Understanding the intersection between neighborhood characteristics and individual-level cognitive-affective processing may provide insight into what shapes beliefs and behaviors about important social information. |
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spelling | pubmed-71152122020-04-09 Living in a Disadvantaged Neighborhood Affects Neural Processing of Facial Trustworthiness Chang, Shou-An A. Baskin-Sommers, Arielle Front Psychol Psychology Neighborhood disorder (i.e., physical or social decay) is associated with decreased trust, which reinforces criminal behavior among some individuals in these communities. However, past research largely is descriptive and has not measured processes underlying trust. Using behavioral and neural indices [the late positive potential (LPP), a marker of salience elaboration] in a sample of adults (N = 55), we examined the association between perceived neighborhood disorder and facial trustworthiness perception as well as the potential moderating role of trustworthiness perception on the association between PND and criminal behavior. Individuals with higher perceived neighborhood disorder displayed less LPP differentiation between untrustworthy and trustworthy faces. Moreover, individuals with higher perceived neighborhood disorder and less LPP differentiation were less likely to commit a variety of crimes, whereas those with higher perceptions of neighborhood disorder and high LPP differentiation were more likely to commit a variety of crimes. Combined, these findings suggest that similarly processing trustworthy and untrustworthy faces, as indexed by less LPP differentiation, may reflect an adaptation among those with higher perceived neighborhood disorder that mitigates against deviant behavior and contacts with the law. Understanding the intersection between neighborhood characteristics and individual-level cognitive-affective processing may provide insight into what shapes beliefs and behaviors about important social information. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-03-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7115212/ /pubmed/32273859 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00409 Text en Copyright © 2020 Chang and Baskin-Sommers. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Chang, Shou-An A. Baskin-Sommers, Arielle Living in a Disadvantaged Neighborhood Affects Neural Processing of Facial Trustworthiness |
title | Living in a Disadvantaged Neighborhood Affects Neural Processing of Facial Trustworthiness |
title_full | Living in a Disadvantaged Neighborhood Affects Neural Processing of Facial Trustworthiness |
title_fullStr | Living in a Disadvantaged Neighborhood Affects Neural Processing of Facial Trustworthiness |
title_full_unstemmed | Living in a Disadvantaged Neighborhood Affects Neural Processing of Facial Trustworthiness |
title_short | Living in a Disadvantaged Neighborhood Affects Neural Processing of Facial Trustworthiness |
title_sort | living in a disadvantaged neighborhood affects neural processing of facial trustworthiness |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7115212/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32273859 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00409 |
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