TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Self-esteem and cultural worldview buffer mortality salience effects on responses to self-face: Distinct neural mediators
JO  - Biological psychology
A1  - Guan, Lili
A1  - Wu, Taoyu
A1  - Yang, Juan
A1  - Xie, Xiaochun
A1  - Han, Shihui
A1  - Zhao, Yufang
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0301-0511
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2020.107944
ID  - ref1
ER  -