Effects of positive and negative social feedback on motivation, evaluative learning, and socio-emotional processing.

ABSTRACT: Social rewards and punishments are strong motivators. Since experimental work has focused on young adults using simplistic feedback, the effects of more naturalistic stimuli on motivation, evaluative learning, and socio-emotional processing with advanced age remain unclear. Therefore, we compared the effects of static (photos) vs dynamic (videos) social feedback in a social incentive delay (SID) task in young (18-35 years) and older adults (50-84 years) with neutral, positive, and negative feedback, on response times (RTs), and assessed the emotional valence of feedback cues and feedback videos. We found that anticipating positive and negative social feedback accelerated RTs regardless of age and without additional effects of video feedback. Furthermore, the results suggest a valence trans

SUBMITTER: Sobczak A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10432544 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature