Elucidating neural mechanisms of regulating positive self-evaluation

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Positive self-bias and self-regulation are two important topics of social cognition. People tend to perceive themselves as superior to others, which is called positive self-evaluation. Positive self-evaluation is beneficial for personal mental health and well-being, but it leaves a bad impression. People need the skill, i.e., self-regulation, to control their evaluation to avoid impairing social relations. This study aims to explore the psychological and neural mechanisms of regulating self-evaluations when receiving social feedback.In 2022, I further refined the details of the experiment design. I recruited two participants to collect the stimuli and finished part of the experimental programming. I have applied to the ethics committee and gotten approval for the experiments.