Depressive symptoms are associated with blunted reward learning in social contexts
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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 complete). Behavioral analyses revealed a specific detrimental effect of depressive symptoms-but not anxiety-on behavioral performance in the presence of social information, i.e. when participants were informed about the choices of another player. Model-based analyses further characterized the computational nature of this deficit as a negative audience effect, rather than a deficit in the way others' choices and rewards are integrated in decision making. To conclude, our results shed light on the cognitive and computational mechanisms underlying the interaction between social cognition, reward learning and decision-making in depressive disorders.
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- Authors
- Safra, L., Chevallier, C., & Palminteri, S.
- Affiliations
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Inserm (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Safra, Lou
- Palminteri, Stefano
- Venue
- PLOS Computational Biology
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2019-07-29
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- e1007224
- ISSN
- 1553-734X (ISSN-L)
- 1553-7358
- PMC
- PMC6699715
- OpenAlex
- W2966242103
- Cited by
- 40
- References
- 58
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 3
- FWCI
- 2.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- new_version (2019-08-19)
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- PLoS Computational Biology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (ANR-10-LABX-0087)
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-10-IDEX-0001, ANR-10-IDEX0001-02., ANR-17-EURE-0017, ANR-10-IDEX, ANR-10-LABX-0087, ANR-16, ANR-16-NEUC-0004, ANR10IDEX000102 PSL, ANR-10, ANR-10-LABX, IDEX-0001-02)
- Fondation Fyssen (ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02 PSL, ANR-10-LABX-0087)
- Fondation Schlumberger pour l’Education et la Recherche
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Keywords
- depressive symptoms, reward learning, social environment, social information, decision-making, anxiety symptoms, audience effects, social cognition, computational modeling, model-based analysis, social interaction deficits
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Anxiety, Computer Simulation, Decision Making, Depression, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Learning, Male, Middle Aged, Models, Psychological, Reinforcement, Psychology, Reward, Cohort Studies, Linear Models, Computational Biology, Young Adult
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