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Depression and approach-avoidance decisions to emotional displays: The role of anhedonia

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Depression is linked to dysfunctional appetitive and aversive motivational systems and effort-based decision-making, yet whether such deficits extend to social decisions remains unclear. Participants (23 non-depressed, 48 depressed - 24 with a past history of suicide attempt) completed a social decision-making task consisting in freely choosing whether to approach or avoid individuals displaying happy or angry expressions. Occasionally, participants had to make a further effort (change button press) to obtain the desired outcome. All participants preferentially avoided anger on their first choice. Yet, depressed patients less often chose to approach happy individuals, as a function of anhedonia severity. Depressed patients were also less inclined than controls to change their response when the anticipated outcome of their first choice was undesirable (approach angry and avoid happy). Again, such effect correlated with anhedonia severity. Our results support that both altered valuation and willingness to exert effort impact approach-avoidance decisions in social contexts in depression. On this basis, we propose a new integrating framework for reconciling different hypotheses on the effect of depression and anhedonia on motivational responses to emotional stimuli.
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Julie Grèzes, Nathan Risch, Philippe Courtet, Émilie Olié, Rocco Mennella. Depression and approach-avoidance decisions to emotional displays: The role of anhedonia. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 2023, 164, pp.104306. ⟨10.1016/j.brat.2023.104306⟩. ⟨hal-04076350⟩
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