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Empathy incites a stable prosocial decision bias.
Saulin, Anne; Ma, Yina; Hein, Grit.
Afiliação
  • Saulin A; Department of Psychiatry, Center of Mental Health, Psychosomatic and Psychotherapy, Translational Social Neuroscience Unit, University Hospital Würzburg, Margarete-Höppel-Platz 1, 97080 Würzburg, Germany.
  • Ma Y; State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning; IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Xinjiekouwai St, Haidan District, Beijing 100875, China.
  • Hein G; Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Yike Rd, Changping District, Beijing 102206, China.
Cereb Cortex ; 34(7)2024 Jul 03.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38970361
ABSTRACT
Empathy toward suffering individuals serves as potent driver for prosocial behavior. However, it remains unclear whether prosociality induced by empathy for another person's pain persists once that person's suffering diminishes. To test this, participants underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging while performing a binary social decision task that involved allocation of points to themselves and another person. In block one, participants completed the task after witnessing frequent painful stimulation of the other person, and in block two, after observing low frequency of painful stimulation. Drift-diffusion modeling revealed an increased initial bias toward making prosocial decisions in the first block compared with baseline that persisted in the second block. These results were replicated in an independent behavioral study. An additional control study showed that this effect may be specific to empathy as stability was not evident when prosocial decisions were driven by a social norm such as reciprocity. Increased neural activation in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex was linked to empathic concern after witnessing frequent pain and to a general prosocial decision bias after witnessing rare pain. Altogether, our findings show that empathy for pain elicits a stable inclination toward making prosocial decisions even as their suffering diminishes.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética / Tomada de Decisões / Empatia Limite: Adult / Female / Humans / Male Idioma: En Revista: Cereb Cortex Assunto da revista: CEREBRO Ano de publicação: 2024 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Alemanha

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética / Tomada de Decisões / Empatia Limite: Adult / Female / Humans / Male Idioma: En Revista: Cereb Cortex Assunto da revista: CEREBRO Ano de publicação: 2024 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Alemanha