“…There is evidence that a blunted neural response to social reward is present in those at risk for depression (Freeman et al, 2022 ; Olino et al, 2015 ) and in those with elevated depressive symptoms (Distefano et al, 2018 ; Kujawa et al, 2017 ) or major depressive disorder (Hsu et al, 2015 ). Some findings suggest that neural response to social reward is more closely correlated with depressive symptoms than neural response to monetary reward (Ait Oumeziane, Jones, & Foti, 2019 ; Banica, Schell, Racine, & Weinberg, 2022 ; Chan et al, 2015 ; Pegg, Arfer, & Kujawa, 2021 ; Zhang et al, 2020 ). Blunted neural response to social reward has also been found to moderate the association between lifetime interpersonal stress exposure and depressive symptoms; however, this study was conducted cross‐sectionally (Pegg et al, 2019 ).…”