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Children’s shyness and neural responses to social exclusion: Patterns of midfrontal theta power usually not observed until adolescence

Abstract

Adverse peer experiences, such as social exclusion, are known risks for socioemotional problems among shy youth. Yet, little is known about how shy children and adolescents process social exclusion in the brain and whether these responses are amplified in adolescence. Using the Cyberball task, we examined mediofrontal theta (4-7 Hz) event-related EEG spectral power during conditions of fair play and social exclusion in 122 participants (58 …

Authors

Tang A; Lahat A; Crowley MJ; Wu J; Schmidt LA

Journal

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 1262–1275

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

December 2021

DOI

10.3758/s13415-021-00916-7

ISSN

1530-7026