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9624002

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6684
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-6-17
pubmed:abstractText
Studies in animals have implicated the amygdala in emotional and social behaviours, especially those related to fear and aggression. Although lesion and functional imaging studies in humans have demonstrated the amygdala's participation in recognizing emotional facial expressions, its role in human social behaviour has remained unclear. We report here our investigation into the hypothesis that the human amygdala is required for accurate social judgments of other individuals on the basis of their facial appearance. We asked three subjects with complete bilateral amygdala damage to judge faces of unfamiliar people with respect to two attributes important in real-life social encounters: approachability and trustworthiness. All three subjects judged unfamiliar individuals to be more approachable and more trustworthy than did control subjects. The impairment was most striking for faces to which normal subjects assign the most negative ratings: unapproachable and untrustworthy looking individuals. Additional investigations revealed that the impairment does not extend to judging verbal descriptions of people. The amygdala appears to be an important component of the neural systems that help retrieve socially relevant knowledge on the basis of facial appearance.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0028-0836
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
4
pubmed:volume
393
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
470-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
The human amygdala in social judgment.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242, USA. ralph-adolphs@uiowa.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.