To produce or not to produce? Contrasting the effect of substance abuse in social decision-making situations.

ABSTRACT: Substance use disorders (SUD) have been related to high criminal justice costs, expensive healthcare, social impairment, and decision-making deficits. In non-social decision-making tasks, people with SUD tend to take more risks and choose small immediate rewards than controls. However, few studies have explored how people with SUD behave in social decision-making situations where the resources and profits depend directly on participants' real-time interaction, i.e., social foraging situations. To fulfill this gap, we developed a real-time interaction task to (a) compare the proportion of producers (individuals who tend to search for food sources) and scroungers (individuals who tend to steal or join previously discovered food sources) among participants with SUD and controls with respect t

SUBMITTER: Avila-Chauvet L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10559002 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature