Dubey, I;
Ropar, D;
Hamilton, AFDC;
(2017)
Social seeking declines in young adolescents.
Royal Society Open Science
, 4
(8)
, Article 170029. 10.1098/rsos.170029.
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Social seeking declines in young adolescents |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1098/rsos.170029 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170029 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2017 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Multidisciplinary Sciences, Science & Technology - Other Topics, social seeking, social motivation, atypical development, choose a movie, young adolescents, AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS, FACE RECOGNITION, CHILDREN, REWARD, BRAIN, ANTICIPATION, PERFORMANCE, MONETARY, PHOTOGRAPHS, AVOIDANCE |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1575416 |
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