Meanings of social motivation in English

The slow pace of progress has lead to a search for innovative responses, including social motivation approaches.

Nelson and Panksepp (1996) developed a preference task to examine early rodent pup social motivation.

In Experiment 2, the levels of social motivation were compared between family- and isolation-raised animals, using a T-maze.

Particularly salient were the relationships between attention and hyperactivity deficits, with impairments in social awareness and social motivation.

We asked here whether genetically based differences in social motivation are associated with how the adolescent social environment impacts voluntary ethanol intake.

For females it may be important to minimize compliance motivation whereas for males, programs that foster social motivation to eat might be appropriate.

Here, we tested whether sex differences in social motivation emerge in infant monkeys (n = 48) reared in a controlled postnatal environment.

Conclusions: In line with social motivation theory, the ASD group showed reduced activation, compared to controls, during the receipt of social rewards in the DS.

And then the social motivations is also key.

Background: Social motivation theory suggests that deficits in social reward processing underlie social impairments in autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

To offer more insight on how these core social motivations impact psychiatric disability, we present a case vignette of a Fuzhounese man diagnosed with schizophrenia.