Cortical thickness of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex predicts strategic choices in economic games.

ABSTRACT: Human prosociality has been traditionally explained in the social sciences in terms of internalized social norms. Recent neuroscientific studies extended this traditional view of human prosociality by providing evidence that prosocial choices in economic games require cognitive control of the impulsive pursuit of self-interest. However, this view is challenged by an intuitive prosociality view emphasizing the spontaneous and heuristic basis of prosocial choices in economic games. We assessed the brain structure of 411 players of an ultimatum game (UG) and a dictator game (DG) and measured the strategic reasoning ability of 386. According to the reflective norm-enforcement view of prosociality, only those capable of strategically controlling their selfish impulses give a fair share in the U

SUBMITTER: Yamagishi T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4878491 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature