An effort-based social feedback paradigm reveals aversion to popularity in socially anxious participants and increased motivation in adolescents.

ABSTRACT: We created a novel social feedback paradigm to study how motivation for potential social links is influenced in adolescents and adults. 88 participants (42F/46M) created online posts and then expended physical effort to show their posts to other users, who varied in number of followers and probability of positive feedback. We focused on two populations of particular interest from a social feedback perspective: adolescents relative to young adults (13-17 vs 18-24 years of age), and participants with social anxiety symptoms. Individuals with higher self-reported symptoms of social anxiety did not follow the typical pattern of increased effort to obtain social feedback from high status peers. Adolescents were more willing to exert physical effort on the task than young adults. Overall, partic

SUBMITTER: Bos DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8078767 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature