I don’t care about others’ approval: Dysphoric individuals show reduced effort mobilization for obtaining a social reward

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 790-801

  Brinkmann, Kerstin ^a   Franzen, Jessica ^a   Rossier, Cyrielle ^a   Gendolla, Guido H E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular reactivity; Depression; Effort mobilization; Reward responsiveness; Social reward

Indexed keywords

EID: 84916204501     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-014-9437-y     Document Type: Article

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