Social seeking declines in young adolescents
The desire to engage with others is an important motivational force throughout our lifespan. It is known that social behaviour and preferences change from childhood to adulthood, but whether this change is linked with any changes in social motivation is not known. We evaluated 255 typically developi...
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| description | The desire to engage with others is an important motivational force throughout our lifespan. It is known that social behaviour and preferences change from childhood to adulthood, but whether this change is linked with any changes in social motivation is not known. We evaluated 255 typically developing participants from ages 4–20 years on a behavioural paradigm ‘Choose a Movie’ (CAM). On every trial, participants had a choice between viewing social or non-social movies presented with different levels of effort (key presses/screen touch required). Hence, participants chose not only the movie they would watch but also how much effort they would make. The difference between the effort levels of the chosen and not chosen stimuli helps in quantifying the motivation to seek it. This task could be used with all the age groups with minimal adaptations, allowing comparison between the groups. Results showed that children (4–8 years), older adolescents (12–16 years) and young adults (17–20 years) made more effort to look at social movies. Counterintuitively, this preference was not seen in young adolescents (around 9–12 years), giving a U-shaped developmental trajectory over the population. We present the first evidence for non-monotonic developmental change in social motivation in typical participants. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-66d2c07fc1024bbaacadcf3d8f13f05a2022-12-21T19:21:28ZengThe Royal SocietyRoyal Society Open Science2054-57032017-01-014810.1098/rsos.170029170029Social seeking declines in young adolescentsIndu DubeyDanielle RoparAntonia F de C. HamiltonThe desire to engage with others is an important motivational force throughout our lifespan. It is known that social behaviour and preferences change from childhood to adulthood, but whether this change is linked with any changes in social motivation is not known. We evaluated 255 typically developing participants from ages 4–20 years on a behavioural paradigm ‘Choose a Movie’ (CAM). On every trial, participants had a choice between viewing social or non-social movies presented with different levels of effort (key presses/screen touch required). Hence, participants chose not only the movie they would watch but also how much effort they would make. The difference between the effort levels of the chosen and not chosen stimuli helps in quantifying the motivation to seek it. This task could be used with all the age groups with minimal adaptations, allowing comparison between the groups. Results showed that children (4–8 years), older adolescents (12–16 years) and young adults (17–20 years) made more effort to look at social movies. Counterintuitively, this preference was not seen in young adolescents (around 9–12 years), giving a U-shaped developmental trajectory over the population. We present the first evidence for non-monotonic developmental change in social motivation in typical participants.https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.170029social seekingsocial motivationatypical developmentchoose a movieyoung adolescents |
| spellingShingle | Indu Dubey Danielle Ropar Antonia F de C. Hamilton Social seeking declines in young adolescents Royal Society Open Science social seeking social motivation atypical development choose a movie young adolescents |
| title | Social seeking declines in young adolescents |
| title_full | Social seeking declines in young adolescents |
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| title_short | Social seeking declines in young adolescents |
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| topic | social seeking social motivation atypical development choose a movie young adolescents |
| url | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.170029 |
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