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Neural regions associated with self control and mentalizing are recruited during prosocial behaviors towards the family
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Prosocial decisions can be difficult because they often involve personal sacrifices that do not generate any direct, immediate benefits to the self. The current study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to understand how individuals decide to provide support to others. Twenty-five participants were scanned as they completed a task in which they made costly decisions to contribute money to their family and noncostly decisions to accept personal monetary rewards. Decisions to contribute to the family recruited brain regions involved in self-control and mentalizing, especially for individuals with stronger family obligation preferences. Psychophysiological interaction (PPI) analyses revealed that individuals with stronger family obligation preferences showed greater functional coupling between regions involved in self-control and mentalizing with the ventral striatum, a region involved in reward processing. These findings suggest that prosocial behavior may require both social cognition and deliberate effort, and the application of these processes may result in greater positive reinforcement during prosocial behavior.
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“we have shown that adolescents who report feeling happier on days when they support their family show greater ventral striatum activation when providing monetary support to their family during an fMRI scan (Telzer et al., 2010, Telzer et al., 2011)”
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- Authors
- Telzer, E. H., Masten, C. L., Berkman, E. T., Lieberman, M. D., & Fuligni, A. J.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Vanderbilt University (US)
- University of Oregon (US)
- Corresponding author
- Telzer, Eva H.
- Venue
- NeuroImage
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-09
- Volume
- 58
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 242-249
- ISSN
- 1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3276247
- OpenAlex
- W2124436648
- Cited by
- 117
- References
- 42
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 1.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- NeuroImage (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (F31DA024904)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Keywords
- prosocial behavior, self-control, mentalization, family responsibilities, family support, ventral striatum, reward processing, social cognition, neural coupling, self-sacrifice
- MeSH terms
- Basal Ganglia, Brain Mapping, Decision Making, Family, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Interpersonal Relations, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Reward, Social Behavior, Social Support, Young Adult, Theory of Mind
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