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Neural Reactivity to Emotional Faces May Mediate the Relationship Between Childhood Empathy and Adolescent Prosocial Behavior

Flournoy, John C, Pfeifer, Jennifer H, Moore, William E, Tackman, Allison M, Masten, Carrie L, Mazziotta, John C, Iacoboni, Marco, Dapretto, Mirella·2016·Child Development
DOI 10.1111/cdev.12630PMC PMC5448462

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Reactivity to others’ emotions not only can result in empathic concern (EC), an important motivator of prosocial behavior, but can also result in personal distress (PD), which may hinder prosocial behavior. Examining neural substrates of emotional reactivity may elucidate how EC and PD differentially influence prosocial behavior. Participants (N = 57) provided measures of EC, PD, prosocial behavior, and neural responses to emotional expressions at ages 10 and 13. Initial EC predicted subsequent prosocial behavior. Initial EC and PD predicted subsequent reactivity to emotions in the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and inferior parietal lobule, respectively. Activity in the IFG, a region linked to mirror neuron processes, as well as cognitive control and language, mediated the relation between initial EC and subsequent prosocial behavior.

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Flournoy, J. C., Pfeifer, J. H., Moore, W. E., Tackman, A. M., Masten, C. L., Mazziotta, J. C., Iacoboni, M., & Dapretto, M.
Affiliations
  • University of Oregon
  • University of California , Los Angeles
Venue
Child Development
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2016-11-01
Volume
87
Issue
6
Pages
1691-1702
ISSN
  • 0009-3920
  • 1467-8624
DOI
10.1111/cdev.12630
PMC
PMC5448462
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  • Santa Fe Institute Consortium
  • Brain Mapping Medical Research Organization
  • Brain Mapping Support Foundation
  • Pierson-Lovelace Foundation
  • Ahmanson Foundation
  • William M. and Linda R. Dietel Philanthropic Fund at the Northern Piedmont Community Foundation
  • Tamkin Foundation
  • Jennifer Jones-Simon Foundation
  • Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation
  • Robson Family and Northstar Fund
  • National Center for Research Resources (RR12169, RR13642, RR00865)
  • National Institutes of Health

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