How resource sharing resists scarcity: the role of cognitive empathy and its neurobiological mechanisms.

ABSTRACT: Resource scarcity challenges individuals' willingness to share limited resources with other people. Still, lots of field studies and laboratory experiments have shown that sharing behaviors do not disappear under scarcity. Rather, some individuals are willing to share their scarce resources with others in a similar way as when the resource is abundant, which is crucial for the maintenance and development of human society. Here, we designed a novel paradigm in which subjects decided whether (and how much) to share an amount of "relieving resources" for counteracting unpleasant noises, which mimics real-life situations that people cost their own resources to help others escape from adversity. Overall, the robustness of resource sharing under scarcity was positively correlated with individual

SUBMITTER: Cui F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9712734 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature