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An effort-based social feedback paradigm reveals aversion to popularity in socially anxious participants and increased motivation in adolescents
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 probabili...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8078767/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33905429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249326 |
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author | Bos, Dienke J. Barnes, Emily D. Silver, Benjamin M. Ajodan, Eliana L. Clark-Whitney, Elysha Scult, Matthew A. Power, Jonathan D. Jones, Rebecca M. |
author_facet | Bos, Dienke J. Barnes, Emily D. Silver, Benjamin M. Ajodan, Eliana L. Clark-Whitney, Elysha Scult, Matthew A. Power, Jonathan D. Jones, Rebecca M. |
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description | 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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spelling | pubmed-80787672021-05-05 An effort-based social feedback paradigm reveals aversion to popularity in socially anxious participants and increased motivation in adolescents Bos, Dienke J. Barnes, Emily D. Silver, Benjamin M. Ajodan, Eliana L. Clark-Whitney, Elysha Scult, Matthew A. Power, Jonathan D. Jones, Rebecca M. PLoS One Research Article 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. Public Library of Science 2021-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8078767/ /pubmed/33905429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249326 Text en © 2021 Bos et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Bos, Dienke J. Barnes, Emily D. Silver, Benjamin M. Ajodan, Eliana L. Clark-Whitney, Elysha Scult, Matthew A. Power, Jonathan D. Jones, Rebecca M. An effort-based social feedback paradigm reveals aversion to popularity in socially anxious participants and increased motivation in adolescents |
title | An effort-based social feedback paradigm reveals aversion to popularity in socially anxious participants and increased motivation in adolescents |
title_full | An effort-based social feedback paradigm reveals aversion to popularity in socially anxious participants and increased motivation in adolescents |
title_fullStr | An effort-based social feedback paradigm reveals aversion to popularity in socially anxious participants and increased motivation in adolescents |
title_full_unstemmed | An effort-based social feedback paradigm reveals aversion to popularity in socially anxious participants and increased motivation in adolescents |
title_short | An effort-based social feedback paradigm reveals aversion to popularity in socially anxious participants and increased motivation in adolescents |
title_sort | effort-based social feedback paradigm reveals aversion to popularity in socially anxious participants and increased motivation in adolescents |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8078767/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33905429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249326 |
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