The role of social motivation in sharing and fairness: insights from Williams syndrome.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sharing and fairness are important prosocial behaviors that help us navigate the social world. However, little is known about how and whether individuals with Williams Syndrome (WS) engage in these behaviors. The unique phenotype of individuals with WS, consisting of high social motivation and limited social cognition, can also offer insight into the role of social motivation in sharing and fairness when compared to typically developing (TD) individuals. The current study used established experimental paradigms to examine sharing and fairness in individuals with WS and TD individuals.

Methods

We compared a sample of patients with WS to TD children (6-year-olds) matched by mental age (MA) on two experimental tasks: the Dictator Game (DG, Experiment 1, N = 17 WS, 20

SUBMITTER: Foti F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11365235 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature