ArticleClinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2024
Motivation and Pleasure Deficits Undermine the Benefits of Social Affiliation in Psychosis.
Article in Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Blunted Ventral Striatal Reactivity to Social Reward Is Associated with More Severe Motivation and Pleasure Deficits in Psychosis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Article
- Feasibility of a digital therapeutic for experiential negative symptoms of schizophrenia: results from an exploratory study.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Socially relevant affective learning in psychosis: Relations to deficits in motivation and pleasure and cognitive ability.Schizophrenia research · 2025Article
- Interpersonal consequences of paranoid ideation, negative symptoms and sleep problems in a transdiagnostic sample of individuals with psychosis.Journal of psychiatric research · 2024Article
- Blunted ventral striatal reactivity to social reward is associated with more severe motivation and pleasure deficits in psychosis.Research square · 2024Article
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Abstract
In psychotic disorders, motivation and pleasure (MAP) deficits are associated with decreased affiliation and heightened functional impairment. We leveraged a transdiagnostic sample enriched for psychosis and a multi-method approach to test the hypothesis that MAP deficits undermine the stress-buffering benefits of affiliation. Participants completed the Social Affiliation Enhancement Task (SAET) to cultivate affiliation with an experimental partner. Although the SAET increased perceived affiliation and mood, individuals with greater negative symptoms derived smaller emotional benefits from the partners, as indexed by self-report and facial behavior. We then used the Handholding fMRI paradigm, which combines threat-anticipation with affiliative physical contact, to determine whether MAP deficits undermine the social regulation of distress. Individuals with greater MAP deficits showed diminished neural 'benefits'-reduced dampening of threat-elicited activation-from affiliative touch in key frontoparietal nodes of the Dorsal Attention Network. In short, MAP symptoms disrupt the emotional and neuroregulatory benefits of affiliation.
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