Social Comparison Affects Reward-Related Brain Activity in the Human Ventral Striatum

By K. Fliessbach, Bernd Weber, P. Trautner, Uwe Sunde, C. Elger, Armin Falk. Science, 2007

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Minds Made for Sharing: Initiating Joint Attention Recruits Reward-related Neurocircuitry (2010, result): “In summary, our results parallel recent findings which show that social referencing can activate reward-related brain regions known to realize strong influences on cognition and behavior (Fliessbach et al., 2007).”
Team Incentives: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment (2013, positive): “Our first results makes precise the conditions under which workers face a trade-off between matching by ability or by friendship, and, if so, how the trade-off depends on the power of incentives.”
Adolescents Prefer More Immediate Rewards When in the Presence of their Peers (2011, background): “Given that exposure to a wide variety of socioemotional stimuli, including facial expressions, is known to engage dopaminergic pathways involved in incentive processing and reward valuation (e.g., ventral striatum and orbitofrontal cortex; Adolphs, 2003; Fliessbach et al., 2007), the authors suggest”
Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries? (2011, background): “Fließbach et al. (2007) use MRI techniques to measure the brain activity of pairs of individuals engaged in identical guessing-game tasks.”
The neuropsychology of consumer behavior and marketing (2018, background): “The striatum is also crucially implicated in forming evaluative expectations (Knutson & Wimmer, 2007) and social reward processing (Fliessbach et al., 2007).”
Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence (2014, background): “Recent follow-up work by Fließbach et al. (2012) repeated their 2007 experiment, but this time with both men and women, and distinguished between 1168 Handbook of Income Distribution”
Social comparison and effort provision: evidence from a field experiment (2014, methodology): “Before the rst shift, the workers were invited to a training session during which they were made familiar with the objective and procedures of the promotion campaign, trained on how to approach potential customers, and provided with equipment and clothing.”
In the Eye of the Beholder: Individual Differences in Perceived Social Isolation Predict Regional Brain Activation to Social Stimuli (2009, background): “Evidence that social rewards also activate the ventral striatum has begun to accumulate in studies of romantic love (Aron et al., 2005), social cooperation (Rilling et al., 2002), social comparison (Fliessbach et al., 2007), and punitive altruism (De Quervain et al., 2004).”
Envy As Pain: Rethinking the Nature of Envy and Its Implications for Employees and Organizations (2012, background): “Recent research shows that the ventral striatum that is associated with reward processing is activated in social comparison episodes (Fliessbach et al., 2007).”