El aislamiento agudo se asocia con una mayor búsqueda de recompensas y aprendizaje de recompensas en adolescentes

Livia Tomova1,2,3, Emily Towner4,5, Kirsten Thomas4

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. tomoval@cardiff.ac.uk.

Communications psychology
|September 5, 2025
PubMed
Resumen

El aislamiento adolescente aumenta la soledad y la búsqueda de recompensas. Las interacciones sociales virtuales pueden reducir la soledad durante el aislamiento, pero el aislamiento aún mejora la capacidad de respuesta y el aprendizaje en los adolescentes.

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