ArticlePloS one2021
An effort-based social feedback paradigm reveals aversion to popularity in socially anxious participants and increased motivation in adolescents.
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- Social reward processing in depressed and healthy individuals across the lifespan: A systematic review and a preliminary coordinate-based meta-analysis of fMRI studies.Behavioural brain research · 2023Pooled it
- Social anxiety and the positive valence system: A scoping review.Journal of mood and anxiety disorders · 2026Review
- miR-218 Regulates the Excitability of VTA Dopamine Neurons and the Mesoaccumbens Pathway in Mice.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Biased information-seeking and information-integration in social anxiety.Current opinion in psychology · 2025Review
- Social Effort Discounting Reveals Domain-General and Social-Specific Motivation Components.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2025Article
- Social goals in girls transitioning to adolescence: associations with psychopathology and brain network connectivity.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2023Article
- Physical Effort Exertion for Peer Feedback Reveals Evolving Social Motivations From Adolescence to Young Adulthood.Psychological science · 2023Article
- Prevalence and variables associated with depression, anxiety, and stress among Chilean higher education students, post-pandemic.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Ventral tegmental area integrity measured with high-resolution 7-Tesla MRI relates to motivation across depression and anxiety diagnoses.NeuroImage · 2022Article
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Abstract
We created a novel social feedback paradigm to study how motivation for potential social links is influenced in adolescents and adults. 88 participants (42F/46M) created online posts and then expended physical effort to show their posts to other users, who varied in number of followers and probability of positive feedback. We focused on two populations of particular interest from a social feedback perspective: adolescents relative to young adults (13-17 vs 18-24 years of age), and participants with social anxiety symptoms. Individuals with higher self-reported symptoms of social anxiety did not follow the typical pattern of increased effort to obtain social feedback from high status peers. Adolescents were more willing to exert physical effort on the task than young adults. Overall, participants were more likely to exert physical effort for high social status users and for users likely to yield positive feedback, and men were more likely to exert effort than women, findings that parallel prior results in effort-based tasks with financial rather than social rewards. Together the findings suggest social motivation is malleable, driven by factors of social status and the likelihood of a positive social outcome, and that age, sex, and social anxiety significantly impact patterns of socially motivated decision-making.
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