Peers, Social Acceptance, and Social Exclusion
When adolescents are spurt on (angestachelt) they are more risk taking than adults and Ventromedial PFC activity is lessened.
When socially excluded in adults there are activities in the:
preiaqueductal grey,
Anterior Cingulate Cortex,
Amygdala,
insular cortex (insula)
after a delay the Ventromedial PFC activates and decreases activity in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex and insular cortex (insula) and the subject is not that upset anymore.
- it rescues the person with rationalization, perspective and emotional regulation.
all these brain regions are central to Pain Perception, anger and disgust. (they do not activate when excluded due to external factors)
==in teenagers the Ventromedial PFC barely activates==, other changes are bigger than in adults.
Teenagers have a stronger need to fit in, because exclusion hurts more.
The more friends they have, the less they are hurt by exclusion.
⇒ Mindset in der Schule
⇒ Schulunterricht verändern
kids who are more sensitive to peer pressure are more prepared to imitate some else’s emotionality (more premotor activity, the Mirror Neurons (MN)).
⇒ emotionale Menschen
Young adults most resistant to peer influence had the strongest such ventral striatum responses.
see also
Adolescence
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