“…However, the empirical studies testing the predictions of the social motivation theory have yielded mixed results. While some published works report that ASC is related to hypo-responsiveness specifically to social (e.g., Scott-Van Zeeland et al, 2010;Sepeta et al, 2012;Stavropoulos & Carver, 2014b, 2014a or both social and nonsocial rewards (e.g., Baumeister et al, 2020;Kohls et al, 2011Kohls et al, , 2013Kohls, Thönessen, et al, 2014;Richey et al, 2014), other studies found no differences between ASC and comparison groups (e.g., Demurie et al, 2016;Ewing et al, 2013;Gilbertson et al, 2017). Moreover, some studies reported hyper-responsiveness to rewards in ASC, especially to objects related to special interests (e.g., Cascio et al, 2014;Kohls et al, 2018;Watson et al, 2015), but also to other social and non-social rewards (e.g., Matyjek, Bayer, et al, 2020;Pankert et al, 2014;van Dongen et al, 2015).…”