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The Transdiagnostic Nature of Social Anhedonia: Historical and Current Perspectives

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Anhedonia: Preclinical, Translational, and Clinical Integration

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In this chapter, we trace the historical roots of the social anhedonia (SoA) construct to current conceptualizations. We first describe the aspects of SoA that distinguish it from anhedonia in general. We summarize evidence that SoA is a transdiagnostic symptom and risk factor. Although several forms of psychopathology are associated with elevated rates of self-reported SoA, one unresolved issue is whether the processes and mechanisms underlying SoA in one disorder are the same as the processes and mechanisms underlying SoA seen in another disorder. We assert that there may be different causal factors underlying SoA across disorders. Considering both the principles of equifinality and multifinality, we offer an integrative model for social reward processing. This conceptualization considers roles for the following: attention; social cognition, including, but not limited to, social skills; reward learning and valuation; working memory; anticipation, prediction, and remembering; and motivation and effort. We conclude that SoA may be caused by multiple underlying impairments, all of which may serve as targets for intervention. This conceptualization is provided as an impetus for further research in the area.

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  1. 1.

    Henceforth, social anhedonia is abbreviated as “SoA” until the concluding paragraph. Social Anhedonia is not abbreviated in chapter headings.

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    We note that a recent meta-analysis (Visser et al. 2020) revealed no statistically significant difference between self-reported anticipatory and consummatory pleasure in schizophrenia-spectrum participants, suggesting only modest support for the temporal distinction of affective experience in humans.

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    We make the distinction between low social interest (i.e., relative to other individuals), which may be regarded as a preference, and reduced interest (i.e., relative to one’s baseline or a clinical norm), which may be less adaptive.

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First and foremost, we thank the individuals with lived experience of mental illness and community participants who have contributed to our research. Ms. Malory Schultz kindly prepared the manuscript. We are appreciative of our collaborators, especially Raymond R.C. Chan, Eduardo Fonseca-Pedrero, Jeffrey S. Bedwell, Daniel N. Klein, and H. Hill Goldsmith for invigorating discussions and reminders of the joys of scientific inquiry.

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Gooding, D.C., Pflum, M. (2022). The Transdiagnostic Nature of Social Anhedonia: Historical and Current Perspectives. In: Pizzagalli, D.A. (eds) Anhedonia: Preclinical, Translational, and Clinical Integration. Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, vol 58. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/7854_2021_301

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