Article
Psychiatry
Kevin G. Saulnier, Natalie S. Marr, Camilla van Geen, Dara E. Babinski, Dahlia Mukherjee
Summary: Offspring of depressed parents are at an increased risk for depression. Reward- and punishment-based systems might be mechanisms linking maternal outcomes to offspring depression and anhedonia. The study investigated the intergenerational relations between maternal markers of reward and punishment responsiveness and their offspring's depression and anhedonia.
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Daniel M. Mackin, Brandon L. Goldstein, Emma Mumper, Autumn Kujawa, Ellen M. Kessel, Thomas M. Olino, Brady D. Nelson, Greg Hajcak, Daniel N. Klein
Summary: Lower neural response to reward predicts subsequent depression during adolescence. Pubertal development and biological sex have important effects on reward system development and depression. Relations among these variables across the transition from childhood to adolescence are not well characterized.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Charumathi Baskaran, Poornima Kumar, Franziska Plessow, Supritha Nimmala, Kathryn E. E. Ackerman, Kamryn T. T. Eddy, Diego A. A. Pizzagalli, Madhusmita Misra
Summary: This study compares depressive and anxiety symptoms between athletes with amenorrhea and eumenorrheic females, and explores structural and functional changes in related brain areas. The results show that athletes with amenorrhea have higher depressive and anxiety symptoms, and lower activation in the caudate during reward processing, suggesting a potential role of estrogen in reward processing.
FRONTIERS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Social
Jiafang Chen, Barbara Nevicka, Astrid C. Homan, Gerben A. van Kleef
Summary: Narcissists are more likely to display antisocial behaviors rather than prosocial behaviors, but they show a weak response to others' social behaviors. They tend to differentiate less between others' antisocial and prosocial behaviors, which may result in a hypo-responsiveness to reward and punishment.
PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
L. M. Hadden, H. Penny, A. L. Jones, A. M. Partridge, T. M. Lancaster, C. Allen
Summary: Depression is a leading cause of disability worldwide, with a high mortality rate. Neuromodulatory treatments such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) are being used to treat depression, but there are questions about their efficacy and biological mechanisms. Replication studies have yielded conflicting results and raised concerns about potential negative effects on patients with depression.
Article
Mathematics, Applied
Xingping Sun, Mingyuan Li, Hongwei Kang, Yong Shen, Qingyi Chen
Summary: The evolution of cooperation in public goods games is studied using evolutionary game theory, with a focus on the role of reward and punishment. Manipulators are introduced into the game, rewarding cooperators and punishing defectors without contributing to the common pool. The study shows that the combination of pure punishment and reward is effective in maintaining cooperation, and there is a wide range of parameters allowing for the coexistence of manipulators and cooperators.
APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTATION
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Samantha Pegg, Kodi B. Arfer, Autumn Kujawa
Summary: This study found that the interaction between social reward responsiveness and rejection sensitivity is significantly associated with depressive symptoms, especially for individuals with reduced response to social reward. The results highlight the importance of considering multiple domains of reward responsiveness in clinical neuroscience research.
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Jessica S. Fields, Rebecca K. Browne, Sarah T. Wieman, Kayla A. Lord, Susan M. Orsillo, Gabrielle I. Liverant
Summary: Valued living has been found to be associated with increased reward responsiveness, particularly in corresponding domains, suggesting that values-work may contribute to enhanced clinical outcomes.
JOURNAL OF CONTEXTUAL BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Simone Cunningham, Raegan Mazurka, Katherine E. Wynne-Edwards, Roumen Milev, Diego A. Pizzagalli, Sidney Kennedy, Kate L. Harkness
Summary: The study found that in men, response to rewards is more positively associated with response to acute stress, and among individuals with depression, the response to rewards is more closely related to stress reactivity.
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2021)
Article
Food Science & Technology
L. Pierguidi, S. Spinelli, J. Prescott, E. Monteleone, C. Dinnella
Summary: The innate aversion to warning sensations is a barrier to the acceptance of vegetable food. The preference for this food category varies among individuals. This study aimed to explore differences in demographics, taste responsiveness, and attitudes among consumers with different preferences for vegetable foods with varied levels of warning sensations. Two clusters were identified: High Warning-Vegetable Consumers (HWVC) and Low-Warning Vegetable Consumers (LWVC). HWVC showed higher familiarity with and preference for vegetables with warning sensations, and had lower anxiety-related traits and higher attitudes towards healthy food choices compared to LWVC.
FOOD RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Stevenson Desmercieres, Virginie Lardeux, Jean-Emmanuel Longueville, Myriam Hanna, Leigh Panlilio, Nathalie Thiriet, Marcello Solinas
Summary: The newly developed PSS procedure provides a quantifiable breakpoint to measure animals' propensity to continue working for a reward despite progressively increasing electric shock intensity. The break point is sensitive to hunger and changes in the qualitative incentive value of the reward, and it shows differences compared to the traditional PR procedure.
Article
Psychiatry
Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon, Elinor E. Waite, Brooke A. Ammerman, Lauren A. Haliczer, Edwin D. Boudreaux, Niels Rathlev, Andrew L. Cohen
Summary: This study found that suicide risk and negative emotions influence learning accuracy and rates among individuals with borderline personality features, with higher risk individuals showing greater increases in learning rate under negative emotions. Fluctuations in learning performance depending on emotion may serve as markers of decision-making associated with higher suicide risk.
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ryan Smith, Namik Kirlic, Jennifer L. Stewart, James Touthang, Rayus Kuplicki, Timothy J. McDermott, Samuel Taylor, Sahib S. Khalsa, Martin P. Paulus, Robin L. Aupperle
Summary: By analyzing 1-year follow-up data, computational modeling parameters show a certain level of stability and correlation with other clinical indicators. Patients demonstrate differences in decision uncertainty and emotional conflict compared to healthy controls.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Review
Psychiatry
Brittany Liebenow, Rachel Jones, Emily DiMarco, Jonathan D. D. Trattner, Joseph Humphries, L. Paul Sands, Kasey P. P. Spry, Christina K. K. Johnson, Evelyn B. B. Farkas, Angela Jiang, Kenneth T. T. Kishida
Summary: Psychiatric diagnoses are currently made based on self-reported symptoms and clinician-identified signs. However, this approach limits the investigation into the underlying causes of psychiatric diseases. This review focuses on the reward prediction error (RPE) hypothesis and computational reinforcement learning theory as frameworks for understanding changes in reward processing and the role of dopamine in psychiatric disorders including addiction, schizophrenia, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The review highlights the need for more explicit accounts of punishment learning in computational psychiatric research.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Tetsushi Ohdaira
Summary: This study proposes a probabilistic pool punishment method proportional to the difference of payoff, which is more stable and promotes cooperation compared to existing pool and peer punishment methods.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Jessica Franzen, Kerstin Brinkmann
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2015)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Kerstin Brinkmann, Jessica Franzen
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2017)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Jessica Franzen, Kerstin Brinkmann, Guido H. E. Gendolla, Othman Sentissi
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2019)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Michael Richter, Florence Mazeres, Kerstin Brinkmann
Summary: Findings from two studies show that task difficulty plays a significant role in how explicit achievement motive strength predicts exerted force. When task difficulty is unclear, explicit achievement motive strength predicts exerted force; however, when task difficulty is clear, the motive does not affect exerted force.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Florence Mazeres, Kerstin Brinkmann, Michael Richter
Summary: The study on physiological and behavioral correlates of motives suggests that motives may not always exert a direct effect on behavior. The impact of explicit achievement motive on myocardial beta-adrenergic activity is moderated by the clarity of task difficulty, indicating that motive strength does not always translate into direct effects on physiology and behavior.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Social
Florence Mazeres, Kerstin Brinkmann, Michael Richter
Summary: This study integrated achievement motive and motivational intensity theory, finding that implicit achievement motive directly influences effort mobilization when task difficulty is unclear, but interacts with task difficulty to impact effort mobilization. The results suggest that achievement motive requires difficult or unclear task conditions to have a noticeable impact on effort.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN PERSONALITY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Amandine Decombe, Kerstin Brinkmann, Marine Merenciano, Delphine Capdevielle, Guido H. E. Gendolla, Stephane Raffard
Summary: This study examined the impact of task difficulty on objective and subjective cognitive effort in schizophrenia, using motivational intensity theory as the theoretical framework. The results showed that individuals with schizophrenia had attenuated cardiovascular activity during the task, indicating decreased objective effort. However, they reported similar levels of subjective effort compared to healthy controls. Additionally, there was a negative relationship between fatigue and cardiovascular activity in the schizophrenia group. These findings suggest a dissociation between objective and subjective effort in schizophrenia, and highlight the importance of fatigue in effort in this population.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Kerstin Brinkmann, Guido H. E. Gendolla
SWISS JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Psychology, Social
Florence Mazeres, Kerstin Brinkmann, Michael Richter
JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN PERSONALITY
(2019)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Jessica Franzen, Kerstin Brinkmann
MOTIVATION AND EMOTION
(2016)
Review
Psychology, Biological
Robert W. Levenson
Summary: This article describes the development of paradigms for studying dyadic interaction in the laboratory, methods, and analytics for dealing with dyadic data. It provides research findings from the author and others, with a particular focus on dyadic measures of linkage or synchrony in physiology, expressive behavior, and subjective affective experience.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Thomas M. Olino, Matthew Mattoni
Summary: This study examined brain function in offspring of mothers with and without depression using monetary and social reward tasks. The results showed no significant differences in task activation and functional connectivity between the two groups. The study discussed the possibility of developmental timing in finding differences.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2024)