Grey matter volume and amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations predicts consumer ethnocentrism tendency

Jianping Huang; Xiaoang Wan; Kaiping Peng; Jie Sui

doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2020.135053

Grey matter volume and amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations predicts consumer ethnocentrism tendency

Jianping Huang, Xiaoang Wan^* (Corresponding Author), Kaiping Peng, Jie Sui

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Tsinghua University

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Abstract

Consumer ethnocentrism tendency (CET) refers to consumers’ belief about the appropriateness and morality of buying foreign products, and this concept characterizes consumers’ tendency to differentiate in-group and out-group commercial products and to avoid imported products for nationalistic reasons. In order to identify the neural correlates of individual differences in CET, we conducted a combined voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and resting-state fMRI study with 228 healthy adults from mainland China, and examined the associations between self-reported CET scores and gray matter volume (GMV), as well as fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations (fALFF). The VBM and fALFF results consistently associated consumer ethnocentrism with the middle temporal gyrus, and the fALFF results further revealed the roles of the anterior cingulate gyrus and anterior insula in CET. Collectively, these findings provide converging evidence about the neural correlates for dispositional attitudes toward domestic and foreign products.

Original language	English
Article number	135053
Number of pages	5
Journal	Neuroscience Letters
Volume	732
Early online date	15 May 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2020.135053
Publication status	Published - 27 Jul 2020

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71872097) awarded to Xiaoang Wan. Comments concerning this article should be sent to Prof. Xiaoang Wan at wanxa@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn or Dr. Jie Sui at jie.sui@abdn.ac.uk.

CRediT authorship contribution statement
Jianping Huang: Methodology, Investigation, Data curation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing, Visualization. Xiaoang Wan: Conceptualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing, Funding acquisition. Kaiping Peng: Conceptualization, Supervision. Jie Sui: Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision.

Keywords

Ethnocentrism
attitude
VBM
fALFF
individual differences
Attitude
Individual differences

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