Competition refers to a condition for which an individual or a group strive to gain or win something by defeating or establishing superiority over others. It follows that, unlike cooperation, the gain of one foresees the loss of the other. Most accounts have focused on the individual and social cognitive mechanisms featuring cooperative/competitive behavior, however, a fascinating question regards the neurophysiological correlates of competitive social phenomenon. What happens at a neural and peripheral level in the brain-and-body system of two people engaged in a competitive dynamic? The combination of multiple neuroscientific techniques adopted to unveil the individual and social complexity of competition leads us discussing a more recent and promising paradigm in neuroscience, the hyperscanning. In the social neuroscience field, hyperscanning allowed shifting from a single-person to a two-persons perspective and can open new opportunities to study interpersonal brain-and-body connectivity during competitive social interactions in increasingly ecological contexts.

Balconi, M., Angioletti, L., Unravelling competitors’ brain-and-body correlates. The two-persons social neuroscience approach to study competition, <<NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TRENDS>>, 2021; (29): 83-104. [doi:10.7358/neur-2021-029-bal2] [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/177261]

Unravelling competitors’ brain-and-body correlates. The two-persons social neuroscience approach to study competition

Balconi, Michela;Angioletti, Laura
2021

Abstract

Competition refers to a condition for which an individual or a group strive to gain or win something by defeating or establishing superiority over others. It follows that, unlike cooperation, the gain of one foresees the loss of the other. Most accounts have focused on the individual and social cognitive mechanisms featuring cooperative/competitive behavior, however, a fascinating question regards the neurophysiological correlates of competitive social phenomenon. What happens at a neural and peripheral level in the brain-and-body system of two people engaged in a competitive dynamic? The combination of multiple neuroscientific techniques adopted to unveil the individual and social complexity of competition leads us discussing a more recent and promising paradigm in neuroscience, the hyperscanning. In the social neuroscience field, hyperscanning allowed shifting from a single-person to a two-persons perspective and can open new opportunities to study interpersonal brain-and-body connectivity during competitive social interactions in increasingly ecological contexts.
2021
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Balconi, M., Angioletti, L., Unravelling competitors’ brain-and-body correlates. The two-persons social neuroscience approach to study competition, <<NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TRENDS>>, 2021; (29): 83-104. [doi:10.7358/neur-2021-029-bal2] [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/177261]
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