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ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2020

Neural dynamics of monetary and social reward processing in social anhedonia.

Zhao Wang, Qi Li, Lu Nie, Ya Zheng

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Article in Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Efficacy ofWorld journal of psychiatry · 2025
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  7. Greater neural delay discounting on reward evaluation in anhedonia.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHP
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zhao WangDepartment of Psychology, Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116044, China.
Qi LiCAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Beijing 100101, China.
Lu NieDepartment of Psychology, Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116044, China.
Ya ZhengDepartment of Psychology, Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116044, China.
Dalian Medical University · CNInstitute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Being characterized by reduced pleasure from social interaction, social anhedonia constitutes a transdiagnostic marker for various psychiatric disorders. However, the neural portrait of social anhedonia remains elusive because of heterogeneities of reward type and reward dynamics in previous studies. The present event-related potential study investigated neural dynamics in response to monetary and social rewards in social anhedonia. Event-related potential responses were examined when a high social anhedonia (HSA, N = 23) group and a low social anhedonia (LSA, N = 26) group were anticipating and consuming social and monetary rewards. LSA but not HSA participants showed an increased stimulus-preceding negativity (anticipatory phase) and and increased reward positivity (consummatory phase) for monetary as compared with social rewards. This group difference could spring from an increased relevance of social rewards or a general decline in affective responding due to a potential association between social anhedonia and depression. Our findings provide preliminary evidence for neural aberrations of the reward system in social anhedonia, which is contingent upon reward type and reward dynamics.

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RewardAnhedoniaBrainElectroencephalographyEvoked PotentialsFemaleHumansMaleMotivationevent-related potentialsreward dynamicsreward typesocial anhedonia

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