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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Individual Differences

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  • Agreeableness, a core personality trait, is linked to theory of mind (ToM) abilities.
  • Emotional cue decoding is a crucial component of ToM.
  • Understanding how personality traits like agreeableness influence social cognition is essential.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if agreeableness modulates emotional cue decoding using electroencephalography (EEG).
  • To examine the influence of task complexity and sex differences on this modulation.
  • To pinpoint the neural processing stage where agreeableness impacts social perception.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized electroencephalography (EEG) to record neural activity in 62 participants.
  • Administered the 'Reading the Mind in the Eyes' (RME) task and the 'biological (e)motion' task.
  • Analyzed event-related potentials (ERPs) and employed source analysis for neural localization.

Main Results:

  • A significant correlation between agreeableness and emotional vs. non-emotional processing was found in a late time window during the RME task.
  • Higher agreeableness was associated with deeper neural processing of emotional cues in the overall and male samples.
  • This modulation was negligible in females, and source analysis implicated the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.

Conclusions:

  • Agreeableness influences the neural processing of complex emotional cues, particularly in males.
  • Sex significantly modulates the relationship between agreeableness and social-emotional processing.
  • Findings contribute to understanding personality's role in social cognition and its neural underpinnings.