Depressive symptoms are associated with blunted reward learning in social contexts.

ABSTRACT: Depression is characterized by a marked decrease in social interactions and blunted sensitivity to rewards. Surprisingly, despite the importance of social deficits in depression, non-social aspects have been disproportionally investigated. As a consequence, the cognitive mechanisms underlying atypical decision-making in social contexts in depression are poorly understood. In the present study, we investigate whether deficits in reward processing interact with the social context and how this interaction is affected by self-reported depression and anxiety symptoms in the general population. Two cohorts of subjects (discovery and replication sample: N = 50 each) took part in an experiment involving reward learning in contexts with different levels of social information (absent, partial and co

SUBMITTER: Safra L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6699715 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature