A study of social nature of self-construct from a standpoint of neuroscience

The purpose of this study is to identify the neural correspondence to the social composition of self by reviewing the recent empirical fMRI studies of self and the classic theory of G. H. Mead’s self which known as symbolic interactionism. According to Mead, the Self is the construct of interaction between the individual and society, and then the significant others and the generalized others play a major role in its formation. we shapes self-knowledge, taking someone else’s perspective of the self, which produces reflected self appraisals. People define themselves with reference to perceptions of other people’s beliefs about them. Reflected self–appraisals are datas and sources to make a direct self-appraisals for individuals. Reflected self–appraisals is incorporated in direct self-appraisals. We could identify that self construction is internal process that taking someone else’s perspective of the self, which is called Me-self. Many empirical studies of self have demonstrated these correlates. Furthermore, via neuroimaging techniques, social neuroscientists revealed developmental differences of components of self between adults and adolescents during self appraisals at the neural level. The study of Pfeifer et al.(2009), exposed aspects of interactant between direct and reflected self-appraisals, comparing between adults and adolescents. During direct self-appraisals, activity in both self and social perception networks was more intense in adolescents than in adults. This finding suggests the self as the construct of social interaction and the process of development