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Impulsive Social Influence Increases Impulsive Choices on a Temporal Discounting Task in Young Adults
Adolescents and young adults who affiliate with friends who engage in impulsive behavior are more likely to engage in impulsive behaviors themselves, and those who associate with prosocial (i.e. more prudent, future oriented) peers are more likely to engage in prosocial behavior. However, it is diff...
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2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4079280/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24988440 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101570 |
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author | Gilman, Jodi M. Curran, Max T. Calderon, Vanessa Stoeckel, Luke E. Evins, A. Eden |
author_facet | Gilman, Jodi M. Curran, Max T. Calderon, Vanessa Stoeckel, Luke E. Evins, A. Eden |
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description | Adolescents and young adults who affiliate with friends who engage in impulsive behavior are more likely to engage in impulsive behaviors themselves, and those who associate with prosocial (i.e. more prudent, future oriented) peers are more likely to engage in prosocial behavior. However, it is difficult to disentangle the contribution of peer influence vs. peer selection (i.e., whether individuals choose friends with similar traits) when interpreting social behaviors. In this study, we combined a novel social manipulation with a well-validated delay discounting task assessing impulsive behavior to create a social influence delay discounting task, in which participants were exposed to both impulsive (smaller, sooner or SS payment) and non-impulsive (larger, later or LL payment) choices from their peers. Young adults in this sample, n = 51, aged 18–25 had a higher rate of SS choices after exposure to impulsive peer influence than after exposure to non-impulsive peer influence. Interestingly, in highly susceptible individuals, the rate of non-impulsive choices did not increase after exposure to non-impulsive influence. There was a positive correlation between self-reported suggestibility and degree of peer influence on SS choices. These results suggest that, in young adults, SS choices appear to be influenced by the choices of same-aged peers, especially for individuals who are highly susceptible to influence. |
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spelling | pubmed-40792802014-07-08 Impulsive Social Influence Increases Impulsive Choices on a Temporal Discounting Task in Young Adults Gilman, Jodi M. Curran, Max T. Calderon, Vanessa Stoeckel, Luke E. Evins, A. Eden PLoS One Research Article Adolescents and young adults who affiliate with friends who engage in impulsive behavior are more likely to engage in impulsive behaviors themselves, and those who associate with prosocial (i.e. more prudent, future oriented) peers are more likely to engage in prosocial behavior. However, it is difficult to disentangle the contribution of peer influence vs. peer selection (i.e., whether individuals choose friends with similar traits) when interpreting social behaviors. In this study, we combined a novel social manipulation with a well-validated delay discounting task assessing impulsive behavior to create a social influence delay discounting task, in which participants were exposed to both impulsive (smaller, sooner or SS payment) and non-impulsive (larger, later or LL payment) choices from their peers. Young adults in this sample, n = 51, aged 18–25 had a higher rate of SS choices after exposure to impulsive peer influence than after exposure to non-impulsive peer influence. Interestingly, in highly susceptible individuals, the rate of non-impulsive choices did not increase after exposure to non-impulsive influence. There was a positive correlation between self-reported suggestibility and degree of peer influence on SS choices. These results suggest that, in young adults, SS choices appear to be influenced by the choices of same-aged peers, especially for individuals who are highly susceptible to influence. Public Library of Science 2014-07-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4079280/ /pubmed/24988440 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101570 Text en © 2014 Gilman et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Gilman, Jodi M. Curran, Max T. Calderon, Vanessa Stoeckel, Luke E. Evins, A. Eden Impulsive Social Influence Increases Impulsive Choices on a Temporal Discounting Task in Young Adults |
title | Impulsive Social Influence Increases Impulsive Choices on a Temporal Discounting Task in Young Adults |
title_full | Impulsive Social Influence Increases Impulsive Choices on a Temporal Discounting Task in Young Adults |
title_fullStr | Impulsive Social Influence Increases Impulsive Choices on a Temporal Discounting Task in Young Adults |
title_full_unstemmed | Impulsive Social Influence Increases Impulsive Choices on a Temporal Discounting Task in Young Adults |
title_short | Impulsive Social Influence Increases Impulsive Choices on a Temporal Discounting Task in Young Adults |
title_sort | impulsive social influence increases impulsive choices on a temporal discounting task in young adults |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4079280/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24988440 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101570 |
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