Neural correlates of prosocial peer influence on public goods game donations during adolescence

Hoorn, Jorien van; Dijk, Eric van; Güroğlu, Berna; Crone, Eveline A.

doi:10.1093/scan/nsw013

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“…In a recent neuroimaging study, we examined whether peer presence and positive feedback affected adolescents’ prosocial behaviors (donation of tokens to their group in a public goods game) and associated neural processing (Van Hoorn, Van Dijk, Güroğlu, & Crone, 2016). Adolescents donated significantly more to a public goods group when they were being observed by their peers, and even more so when receiving positive feedback (i.e., thumbs up) from their peers.…”

Section: Neural Correlates Of Peer and Family Influencementioning

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Social Influence on Positive Youth Development: A Developmental Neuroscience Perspective

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Rogers

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Advances in Child Development and Behavior

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Susceptibility to social influence is associated with a host of negative outcomes during adolescence. However, emerging evidence implicates the role of peers and parents in adolescents' positive and adaptive adjustment. Hence, in this chapter we highlight social influence as an opportunity for promoting social adjustment, which can redirect negative trajectories and help adolescents thrive. We discuss influential models about the processes underlying social influence, with a particular emphasis on internalizing social norms, embedded in social learning and social identity theory. We link this behavioral work to developmental social neuroscience research, rooted in neurobiological models of decision making and social cognition. Work from this perspective suggests that the adolescent brain is highly malleable and particularly oriented toward the social world, which may account for heightened susceptibility to social influences during this developmental period. This chapter underscores the need to leverage social influences during adolescence, even beyond the family and peer context, to promote positive developmental outcomes. By further probing the underlying neural mechanisms as an additional layer to examining social influence on positive youth development, we will be able to gain traction on our understanding of this complex phenomenon.

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Section: Neural Correlates Of Peer and Family Influencementioning

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Social Influence on Positive Youth Development: A Developmental Neuroscience Perspective

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Rogers

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Advances in Child Development and Behavior

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“…In contrast to focusing on peers’ influence on the neural correlates of risk-taking and reward processing, recent work has examined peer effects on prosocial behavior and associated neural activity (Van Hoorn et al, 2016). In the presence of peers, adolescents engaged in greater prosocial behavior, indexed as ostensibly donating more money to others, especially when peers provided prosocial feedback.…”

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The neurobiology of the emotional adolescent: From the inside out

Guyer

Silk

Nelson

2016

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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Adolescents are commonly portrayed as highly emotional, with their behaviors often hijacked by their emotions. Research on the neural substrates of adolescent affective behavior is beginning to paint a more nuanced picture of how neurodevelopmental changes in brain function influence affective behavior, and how these influences are modulated by external factors in the environment. Recent neurodevelopmental models suggest that the brain is designed to promote emotion regulation, learning, and affiliation across development, and that affective behavior reciprocally interacts with age-specific social demands and different social contexts. In this review, we discuss current findings on neurobiological mechanisms of adolescents’ affective behavior and highlight individual differences in and social-contextual influences on adolescents’ emotionality. Neurobiological mechanisms of affective processes related to anxiety and depression are also discussed as examples. As the field progresses, it will be critical to test new hypotheses generated from the foundational empirical and conceptual work and to focus on identifying more precisely how and when neural networks change in ways that promote or thwart adaptive affective behavior during adolescence.

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“…Critically, the majority of adolescent studies have not examined gender differences directly [54, 55•, 56–61]. A study using the Prisoner’s Dilemma reports that adolescent girls are more cooperative than boys [62•].…”

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Prosocial Behavior and Depression: a Case for Developmental Gender Differences

Alarcón

Forbes

2017

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Purpose of Review Prosocial behavior and depression are related constructs that both increase during adolescence and display gender-specific effects. The current review surveys literature examining the association between depressive symptoms and prosociality, measured with behavioral economic paradigms, across development and proposes a theoretical model explaining a mechanism through which adolescent girls have higher risk for depression than boys. Recent Findings Relative to healthy controls, prosocial behavior is reduced in adults with major depressive disorder (MDD) but may be increased in adolescents with MDD. The relationship between non-clinical levels of depressive symptoms and prosocial behavior remains to be studied experimentally; however, self-reported prosocial behavior is negatively associated with depressive symptoms in non-clinical adolescents, which may suggest a shift in the relation of prosocial behavior and depressive symptoms across the non-clinical (i.e., negative) to clinical range (i.e., positive). Summary The effect of gender on these developmental and clinical status shifts has not been studied but could have important implications for understanding the emergence of higher rates of depression in girls than boys during adolescence. We propose that girls are at heightened risk for depression due to higher social-evaluative concern and other-oriented prosocial motivation that emphasize the needs of others over the self, leading to more altruistic prosocial behavior (despite personal cost) and a higher burden that enables depressive symptoms.

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Neural correlates of prosocial peer influence on public goods game donations during adolescence

Cited by 118 publications

References 52 publications

Social Influence on Positive Youth Development: A Developmental Neuroscience Perspective

Social Influence on Positive Youth Development: A Developmental Neuroscience Perspective

The neurobiology of the emotional adolescent: From the inside out

Prosocial Behavior and Depression: a Case for Developmental Gender Differences

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