@article{ref1,
title="Self-esteem and cultural worldview buffer mortality salience effects on responses to self-face: Distinct neural mediators",
journal="Biological psychology",
year="2020",
author="Guan, Lili and Wu, Taoyu and Yang, Juan and Xie, Xiaochun and Han, Shihui and Zhao, Yufang",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Terror management theory proposes cultural worldview and self-esteem as two buffers against death anxiety. The neural mediators of these buffering effects, however, have not been fully understood. The present work investigated neural mediation mechanisms between self-esteem/cultural trait (self-construal) and mortality salience (MS) effects on self-face processing. We found that MS (vs. NA) priming eliminated self-face advantage in behavioral judgments of face-orientation in low self-esteem individuals and reduced self-face advantage in behavioral judgments of facial-familiarity in individuals with high interdependent self-construals. Our functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) results showed that, following MS priming, insular activities mediated the relationship between self-esteem and self-face advantage in face-orientation judgments, whereas dorsal medial prefrontal activity mediated the relationship between interdependent self-construal and self-face advantage in face-familiarity judgments. Our findings suggest that distinct neural mechanisms are engaged in mediating the relationships between self-esteem/cultural trait and MS effects on the emotional and cognitive processes of self-relevant information.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0301-0511",
doi="10.1016/j.biopsycho.2020.107944",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2020.107944"
}