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  • Neuroscience
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Social Cognition

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  • Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by challenges in social interaction and communication.
  • Deficits in processing social rewards are increasingly recognized as a core feature of ASD.
  • Understanding effort-based decision-making in social contexts is crucial for elucidating ASD-related social impairments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate vicarious effort-based decision-making in adolescents with ASD compared to neurotypical controls.
  • To examine how reward magnitude influences effort allocation for self versus others in ASD.
  • To explore the relationship between effort-based decisions and individual differences in pleasure capacity in ASD.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the Effort Expenditure for Rewards Task to assess decision-making.
  • Compared 50 adolescents with ASD to 32 neurotypical controls.
  • Analyzed choices made to win money for oneself or for another person.

Main Results:

  • The ASD group showed similar effort-based decision-making for self-rewards across reward parameters.
  • When choosing for others, the ASD group exhibited decreased sensitivity to reward magnitude, especially for high rewards.
  • Effort-based responding patterns in ASD correlated with individual differences in consummatory pleasure capacity.

Conclusions:

  • Adolescents with ASD display atypical vicarious effort-based decision-making.
  • Findings highlight reduced sensitivity to social reward magnitude in ASD.
  • Results contribute to understanding social reward processing deficits in autism spectrum disorder.