Defining social reward: A systematic review of human and animal studies.

A Stijovic, M Siegel, AU Kocan, I Bojkovska… - Psychological …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Social rewards are strong drivers of behavior and fundamental to well-being, yet there is a
lack of consensus regarding what actually defines a reward as “social.” Because a …

Pathways to depression: Dynamic associations between neural responses to appetitive cues in the environment, stress, and the development of illness

A Weinberg - Psychophysiology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This review focuses on research my colleagues and I have conducted on etiological
pathways to depression. Much of this work has focused on the measurement of neural …

Neural response to rewarding social feedback in never-depressed adolescent girls and their mothers with remitted depression: Associations with multiple risk indices.

C Freeman, P Ethridge, I Banica, A Sandre… - … and Clinical Science, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Prevention of depression requires a clear understanding of etiology. Previous studies have
identified reduced neural responses to monetary reward as a risk factor for depression, but …

Understanding trajectories to anxiety and depression: Neural responses to errors and rewards as indices of susceptibility to stressful life events

A Weinberg, A Kujawa, A Riesel - Current Directions in …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Between-individuals variation in neural responses to errors and rewards is associated with
the degree of risk for developing depression and anxiety, but not all individuals with …

Neural response to social but not monetary reward predicts increases in depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic

C Freeman, L Panier, J Schaffer… - Psychophysiology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The prevalence of depressive symptoms has increased during the COVID‐19 pandemic,
especially among those with greater pandemic‐related stress exposure; however, not all …

Associations between different facets of anhedonia and neural response to monetary, social, and food reward in emerging adults

I Banica, SE Schell, SE Racine, A Weinberg - Biological Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
Anhedonia is present in diverse psychiatric disorders and has been linked to reduced neural
responses to reward. However, most studies of anhedonia have used monetary reward …

Adolescents' sexual orientation and behavioral and neural reactivity to peer acceptance and rejection: The moderating role of family support

KA Clark, JE Pachankis, LR Dougherty… - Clinical …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Sexual-minority adolescents frequently endure peer rejection, yet scant research has
investigated sexual-orientation differences in behavioral and neural reactions to peer …

All the Pringle ladies: Neural and behavioral responses to high‐calorie food rewards in young adult women

I Banica, G Allison, SE Racine, D Foti… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Reward processing is vital for learning and survival, and can be indexed using the Reward
Positivity (RewP), an event‐related potential (ERP) component that is larger for rewards than …

[HTML][HTML] How and when social evaluative feedback is processed in the brain: A systematic review on ERP studies

A Peters, H Helming, M Bruchmann, A Wiegandt… - Cortex, 2024 - Elsevier
Social evaluative feedback informs the receiver of the other's views, which may contain
judgments of personality-related traits and/or the level of likability. Such kinds of social …

The time course of reactivity to social acceptance and rejection feedback: An examination of event‐related potentials and behavioral measures in a peer interaction …

S Pegg, MN Lytle, KB Arfer, A Kujawa - Psychophysiology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Measurement of social processes is of interest across areas of research. Event‐related
potentials (ERPs) measured using electroencephalography (EEG) offer high temporal …