TY  - JOUR
AU  - Schilbach, L.
AU  - Eickhoff, Simon
AU  - Schultze, T
AU  - Mojzisch, A
AU  - Vogeley, K
TI  - To you I am listening: Perceived competence of advisors influences judgment and decision-making via recruitment of the amygdala
JO  - Social neuroscience
VL  - 8
IS  - 3
SN  - 1747-0927
CY  - New York [u.a.]
PB  - Psychology Press
M1  - FZJ-2013-01657
SP  - 189-202
PY  - 2013
AB  - Considering advice from others is a pervasive element of human social life. We used the judge-advisor paradigm to investigate the neural correlates of advice evaluation and advice integration by means of functional magnetic resonance imaging. Our results demonstrate that evaluating advice recruits the 'mentalizing network,' brain regions activated when people think about others' mental states. Important activation differences exist, however, depending upon the perceived competence of the advisor. Consistently, additional analyses demonstrate that integrating others' advice, i.e., how much participants actually adjust their initial estimate, correlates with neural activity in the centromedial amygdala in the case of a competent and with activity in visual cortex in the case of an incompetent advisor. Taken together, our findings, therefore, demonstrate that advice evaluation and integration rely on dissociable neural mechanisms and that significant differences exist depending upon the advisor's reputation, which suggests different modes of processing advice depending upon the perceived competence of the advisor.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:23485131
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000317270700001
DO  - DOI:10.1080/17470919.2013.775967
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/133109
ER  -