On the one hand, stimuli paired with social reward can capture attention even when their processing is irrelevant to, or even detrimental for the task at hand. On the other hand, individual differences exist in how we respond to social reward, and the role of the individual’s Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) in getting involved in social reward seeking behaviors has recently been the subject of particular interest. The current study investigated whether FoMO could predict attentional capture by socially rewarded distractors. Participants performed a visual search task on ecological driving pictures in which stimuli previously associated with social reward (neutral or smiling faces) appeared as distractors on a smartphone screen. Individual FoMO scores positively predicted attentional capture by high-reward stimuli, but only under situations favorable to distraction (foggy scenes). Individual and contextual factors therefore seem to interact to determine whether or not distraction by socially rewarded stimuli will occur.