Different gain/loss sensitivity and social adaptation ability in gifted adolescents during a public goods game.

ABSTRACT: Gifted adolescents are considered to have high IQs with advanced mathematical and logical performances, but are often thought to suffer from social isolation or emotional mal-adaptation to the social group. The underlying mechanisms that cause stereotypic portrayals of gifted adolescents are not well known. We aimed to investigate behavioral performance of gifted adolescents during social decision-making tasks to assess their affective and social/non-social cognitive abilities. We examined cooperation behaviors of 22 gifted and 26 average adolescents during an iterative binary public goods (PG) game, a multi-player social interaction game, and analyzed strategic decision processes that include cooperation and free-riding. We found that the gifted adolescents were more cooperative than aver

SUBMITTER: Chung D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3040203 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature