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SUBMITTER: Mobbs D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2839480 | biostudies-literature | 2009 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mobbs Dean D Yu Rongjun R Meyer Marcel M Passamonti Luca L Seymour Ben B Calder Andrew J AJ Schweizer Susanne S Frith Chris D CD Dalgleish Tim T
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20090501 5929
Humans appear to have an inherent prosocial tendency toward one another in that we often take pleasure in seeing others succeed. This fact is almost certainly exploited by game shows, yet why watching others win elicits a pleasurable vicarious rewarding feeling in the absence of personal economic gain is unclear. One explanation is that game shows use contestants who have similarities to the viewing population, thereby kindling kin-motivated responses (for example, prosocial behavior). Using a g ...[more]