“Why don't they ‘like’ me more?”: Comparing the time courses of social and monetary reward processing

Females Are More Sensitive to Opponent’s Emotional Feedback: Evidence From Event-Related Potentials

“…That is, opponents’ angry expressions increased females’ risk tendency, decreased RewP and feedback P300 in comparison with happy expressions. Given that angry expressions have been used as a negative social feedback (Vrtička et al, 2014 ; Ethridge et al, 2017 ; Oumeziane et al, 2017 ) and elicited smaller RewP (Ethridge et al, 2017 ) and feedback P300 (Oumeziane et al, 2017 ), the current findings suggested that females are highly susceptible to emotional feedback, and consquently modified the amplitude of RewP and P300. Based on the modulation on RewP and feedback P300, it seems the impact of angry expressions can even overshadow the influence of monetary cues during both early stage of motivational salience monitoring and late stage of cognitive appraisal processing for females.…”

“…Specifically, opponents’ angry expressions enlarged the risky tendency relative to happy expressions. Given that angry and happy expressions, used as social feedback, could bring in similar effect as monetary feedback (Vrtička et al, 2014 ; Ethridge et al, 2017 ; Oumeziane et al, 2017 ), we speculate that the current modification result from the interaction of two types feedback cues. Moreover, combined with the influence of emotional cues on RTs, the current finding supported the assumption that interpersonal emotions bias ones’ decision making (van Kleef et al, 2004 ; Averbeck and Duchaine, 2009 ; Parkinson et al, 2012 ; Chen et al, 2017 ).…”

“…This positive component, linking with a more elaborated and conscious appraisal of the motivational significance of performance feedback, was reported to be larger for positive feedback in comparison with negative feedback (Yeung et al, 2004 ; Leng and Zhou, 2010 ; Li et al, 2010 ; Ulrich and Hewig, 2014 ; Mason et al, 2016 ; Zhao et al, 2016 ). Moreover, these two components are sensitive to both monetary and emotional feedback, as the previous study reported that emotional and monetary reward elicited morphologically similar RewP (Ethridge et al, 2017 ) and feedback-related P300 (Oumeziane et al, 2017 ).…”

Neural Dynamic Responses of Monetary and Social Reward Processes in Adolescents

“…Researchers have directly compared behavioral performances and neural responses to social and monetary rewards to investigate whether there were differences between them. Some studies show that monetary and social rewards activate identical neural structures (striatum and medial prefrontal cortex) and comparable scalp topographies and neural response speeds during processes of cue detection, reward anticipation, and feedback evaluation (Izuma et al, 2008;Saxe and Haushofer, 2008;Zink et al, 2008;Guyer et al, 2012;Lin et al, 2012;Olino et al, 2015), which supports the hypothesis of a common neural network (Flores et al, 2015;Oumeziane et al, 2017). However, others suggest that the neural networks for these two reward types are not identical (Spreckelmeyer et al, 2009;Rademacher et al, 2010;Chan et al, 2016), and adult participants are found to be more motivated by monetary rewards than social rewards (Spreckelmeyer et al, 2009;Demurie et al, 2011Demurie et al, , 2012Flores et al, 2015;Wang et al, 2017).…”

“…According to existing studies using the event-related potential (ERP) technique, the neural dynamic of reward processes further contains the stages of motivation processing, emotional reactivity, cognitive control, and feedback processing (Broyd et al, 2012;Pfabigan et al, 2014Pfabigan et al, , 2015. For motivation processing, the cue-P3 component, a centroparietal positivity that emerges between 300 and 500 ms post cue, relates to the allocation of attention to reward-related cues and reflects the processes of cue detection and motivational approach system activation (Nieuwenhuis et al, 2005;Goldstein et al, 2006;Kohls et al, 2011;Broyd et al, 2012;Cox et al, 2015;Flores et al, 2015;Wei et al, 2015;Oumeziane et al, 2017). It has been indicated that higher reward magnitudes or more desirable rewards induced larger cue-P3 amplitudes compared to the cue-P3 amplitudes induced by lower reward magnitudes or less desirable rewards (Schacht and Sommer, 2009;Broyd et al, 2012;Pfabigan et al, 2014).…”