Dissociable brain mechanisms for processing social exclusion and rule violation

►Social exclusion activated vACC, PCC, hippocampus, and insula. ►Rule violation activated dorsal medial and lateral PFC and parietal cortex. ►vACC showed different patterns of functional connectivity in social exclusion and rule violation. ►Rule violation and Social exclusion showed a dorsal-ventral distinction in mPFC, respectively. ►Social exclusion and rule violation recruit distinct networks of brain activation.