Turning a Blind Eye? Punishment of Friends and Unfamiliar Peers After Observed Exclusion in Adolescence

In order to decrease the occurrence of social exclusion in adolescence, we need to better understand how adolescents perceive and behave toward peers involved in exclusion. We examined the role of friendships in treatment of perpetrators and victims of social exclusion. Eighty‐nine participants (aged 9–16) observed exclusion of an unfamiliar peer (victim) by their best friend and another unfamiliar peer. Subsequently, participants could give up valuable coins to altruistically punish or help peers. Results showed that participants altruistically compensated victims and punished unfamiliar excluders, but refrained from punishing their friends. Our findings show that friendship with excluders modulates altruistic punishment of peers and provide mechanistic insight into how friendships may influence treatment of peers involved in social exclusion during adolescence.Pathways through Adolescenc

Friends in high places: A dyadic perspective on peer status as predictor of friendship quality and the mediating role of empathy and prosocial behavior

Contains fulltext : 174415.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)Friendships and peer status play important roles in the social landscape of adolescents and are related to developmental outcomes. Yet, how peer status is related to friendship quality and what role social skills play in this association remains unclear. In this study, we use Actor-Partner Interdependence (Mediation) Modeling (Ledermann, Macho, & Kenny, 2011) to investigate how two forms of peer status, preference and popularity, are related to positive and negative friendship quality in mid-adolescence. Results show that adolescents who are friends with more preferred (i.e., likeable) and popular adolescents report higher friendship quality. These partner effects were partially mediated by adolescents' own prosocial behavior and their friends' empathy levels. Higher levels of empathy of one's friend and one's own lesser preference for equity explained why adolescents were more satisfied in a friendship with highly preferred (i.e., likeable) adolescents. Interestingly, empathy was not a mediator for the link between friendship quality and popularity. These findings promote a better understanding of the interplay between different levels of social complexity (i.e., individual, dyadic and peer group level) in adolescence.17 p

TRUST ALL, LOVE A FEW: NEURAL CORRELATES OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS WITH PEERS

New methods for child psychiatric diagnosis and treatment outcome evaluatio

Friend versus foe: Neural networks of prosocial decision-making with peers

Adolescents spend the majority of their time with their peer. Peers, and friends in particular, are known to play a salient role in adolescents' social decisions. Adolescents can act in more prosocial or selfish ways depending on who their interaction partner is. In the current study we aimed to examine prosocial behavior and its neural correlates in interactions with peers. Participants (N = 50, Mean age = 14 years) took part in a functional magnetic resonance imaging study where they were asked to make decisions regarding distributions of coins in three economic exchange paradigms. Participants made decisions for four different groups of peers: liked (i.e., friends), disliked classmates, neutral classmates, and unfamiliar peers. In line with expectations, participants were more prosocial towards friends and more selfish towards disliked peers than towards neutral and unfamiliar peers. Decisions for friends were associated with heightened activation in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and temporoparietal junction (TPJ); prosocial decisions for friends were specifically associated with heightened activation in putamen and the superior temporal sulcus (STS). These findings suggest that, possibly, mentalizing processes and value estimations of the relationship might underlie decisions involving friends. Decisions for disliked peers did not show significant heightened brain activation. These findings will open pathways to better understand the underlying processes of prosocial behavior in adolescence

Friend versus foe:Neural networks of prosocial decision-making with peers

Adolescents spend the majority of their time with their peer. Peers, and friends in particular, are known to play a salient role in adolescents' social decisions. Adolescents can act in more prosocial or selfish ways depending on who their interaction partner is. In the current study we aimed to examine prosocial behavior and its neural correlates in interactions with peers. Participants (N = 50, Mean age = 14 years) took part in a functional magnetic resonance imaging study where they were asked to make decisions regarding distributions of coins in three economic exchange paradigms. Participants made decisions for four different groups of peers: liked (i.e., friends), disliked classmates, neutral classmates, and unfamiliar peers. In line with expectations, participants were more prosocial towards friends and more selfish towards disliked peers than towards neutral and unfamiliar peers. Decisions for friends were associated with heightened activation in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and temporoparietal junction (TPJ); prosocial decisions for friends were specifically associated with heightened activation in putamen and the superior temporal sulcus (STS). These findings suggest that, possibly, mentalizing processes and value estimations of the relationship might underlie decisions involving friends. Decisions for disliked peers did not show significant heightened brain activation. These findings will open pathways to better understand the underlying processes of prosocial behavior in adolescence

Increasing the role of belief information in moral judgments by stimulating the right temporoparietal junction

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Social exclusion and punishment of excluders: Neural correlates and developmental trajectories

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Behavioral and neural reactions to emotions of others in the distribution of resources

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