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A Multidimensional View on Social and Non-Social Rewards

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ID15529481
AuthorsMagdalena Matyjek (0000-0003-4546-6480, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, corresponding author), Stefanie Meliß (0000-0003-2408-3309, University of Reading, corresponding author), Isabel Dziobek (0000-0003-0150-5353, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Kou Murayama (0000-0003-2902-9600, University of Reading)
Year2020
Volume11
Pages818-818
Publication date2020-08-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFrontiers in Psychiatry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1664-0640 • E-ISSN: 1664-0640
PublisherFrontiers Media (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00818
PMID32973574
OpenAlexW3053994415
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited67

Social rewards are a broad and heterogeneous set of stimuli including for instance smiling faces, gestures, or praise. They have been widely investigated in cognitive and social neuroscience as well as psychology. Research often contrasts the neural processing of social rewards with non-social ones, with the aim to demonstrate the privileged and unique nature of social rewards or to examine shared neural processing underlying them. However, such comparisons mostly neglect other important dimensions of rewards that are conflated in those types of rewards: primacy, temporal proximity, duration, familiarity, source, tangibility, naturalness, and magnitude. We identify how commonly used rewards in both social and non-social domains may differ in respect to these dimensions and how their interaction calls for careful consideration of alternative interpretations of observed effects. Additionally, we propose potential solutions on how to adapt the multidimensional view to experimental research. Altogether, these methodological considerations aim to inform and improve future experimental designs in research utilizing rewarding stimuli, especially in the social domain

Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Conflation · Neglect · Praise · Set (abstract data type · Social cognition · Social neuroscience · Computer Science · Face Recognition and Perception · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Neuroscience · Primate Behavior and Ecology · Psychology · Social Psychology

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Citations per year1,33
Citation span2020 - 2026 (7)
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