Diminished social motivation negatively impacts reputation management: autism spectrum disorders as a case in point.

Human beings are endowed with a unique motivation to be included in social interactions. This natural social motivation, in turn, is thought to encourage behaviours such as flattery or self-deprecation aimed to ease interaction and to enhance the reputation of the individual who produces them. If th...

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Autores principales: Coralie Chevallier, Catherine Molesworth, Francesca Happé
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:af358171eee84eb99b322554f1fa7e452021-11-18T07:29:08ZDiminished social motivation negatively impacts reputation management: autism spectrum disorders as a case in point.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0031107https://doaj.org/article/af358171eee84eb99b322554f1fa7e452012-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22303483/pdf/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Human beings are endowed with a unique motivation to be included in social interactions. This natural social motivation, in turn, is thought to encourage behaviours such as flattery or self-deprecation aimed to ease interaction and to enhance the reputation of the individual who produces them. If this is the case, diminished social interest should affect reputation management. Here, we use Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs)--primarily characterised by pervasive social disinterest--as a model to investigate the effect of social motivation on reputation management. Children first rated a set of pictures and were then given the opportunity to inflate their initial ratings in front of an experimenter who declared that she had drawn the picture. Contrary to the controls, children with ASD did not enhance their ratings in the drawer's presence. Moreover, participants' flattery behaviour correlated with self-reports of social enjoyment. Our findings point to a link between diminished social interest and reputation management.Coralie ChevallierCatherine MolesworthFrancesca HappéPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 1, p e31107 (2012)
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Coralie Chevallier
Catherine Molesworth
Francesca Happé
Diminished social motivation negatively impacts reputation management: autism spectrum disorders as a case in point.
description Human beings are endowed with a unique motivation to be included in social interactions. This natural social motivation, in turn, is thought to encourage behaviours such as flattery or self-deprecation aimed to ease interaction and to enhance the reputation of the individual who produces them. If this is the case, diminished social interest should affect reputation management. Here, we use Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs)--primarily characterised by pervasive social disinterest--as a model to investigate the effect of social motivation on reputation management. Children first rated a set of pictures and were then given the opportunity to inflate their initial ratings in front of an experimenter who declared that she had drawn the picture. Contrary to the controls, children with ASD did not enhance their ratings in the drawer's presence. Moreover, participants' flattery behaviour correlated with self-reports of social enjoyment. Our findings point to a link between diminished social interest and reputation management.
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author Coralie Chevallier
Catherine Molesworth
Francesca Happé
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Francesca Happé
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title Diminished social motivation negatively impacts reputation management: autism spectrum disorders as a case in point.
title_short Diminished social motivation negatively impacts reputation management: autism spectrum disorders as a case in point.
title_full Diminished social motivation negatively impacts reputation management: autism spectrum disorders as a case in point.
title_fullStr Diminished social motivation negatively impacts reputation management: autism spectrum disorders as a case in point.
title_full_unstemmed Diminished social motivation negatively impacts reputation management: autism spectrum disorders as a case in point.
title_sort diminished social motivation negatively impacts reputation management: autism spectrum disorders as a case in point.
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