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Front Behav Neurosci. 2010 May 28;4:22. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2010.00022. eCollection 2010.

The rewarding nature of social interactions.

Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience

Sören Krach, Frieder M Paulus, Maren Bodden, Tilo Kircher

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University Marburg Marburg, Germany.

PMID: 20577590 PMCID: PMC2889690 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2010.00022

Abstract

The objective of this short review is to highlight rewarding aspects of social interactions for humans and discuss their neural basis. Thereby we report recent research findings to illustrate how social stimuli in general are processed in the reward system and highlight the role of Theory of Mind as one mediating process for experiencing social reward during social interactions. In conclusion we discuss clinical implications for psychiatry and psychotherapy.

Keywords: reward; social interaction; theory of mind

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