Self-other resonance, its control and prosocial inclinations: Brain-behavior relationships.

ABSTRACT: Humans seem to place a positive reward value on prosocial behavior. Evidence suggests that this prosocial inclination is driven by our reflexive tendency to share in the observed sensations, emotions and behavior of others, or "self-other resonance". In this study, we examine how neural correlates of self-other resonance relate to prosocial decision-making. Subjects performed two tasks while undergoing fMRI: observation of a human hand pierced by a needle, and observation and imitation of emotional facial expressions. Outside the scanner, subjects played the Dictator Game with players of low or high income (represented by neutral-expression headshots). Subjects' offers in the Dictator Game were correlated with activity in neural systems associated with self-other resonance and anticorrelat

SUBMITTER: Christov-Moore L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4785834 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature