Fig. 5.

Subjective perceptions of being liked. (A) Participants believed they were liked by those who had ranked them highly, which provided an accurate cue to relational value, but also believed they were liked by those who frequently matched with them due to factors outside their control, thus providing high reward value. (B) In brain regions sensitive to learning about relational value, participants for whom voxel patterns encoding Deciders were more similar to patterns encoding rank information, as opposed to outcome information, also based their postscan subjective perceptions more on ranks as opposed to outcomes.