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SUBMITTER: Kuss K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3575724 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kuss Katarina K Falk Armin A Trautner Peter P Elger Christian E CE Weber Bernd B Fliessbach Klaus K
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 20111223 2
The motives underlying prosocial behavior, like charitable donations, can be related either to actions or to outcomes. To address the neural basis of outcome orientation in charitable giving, we asked 33 subjects to make choices affecting their own payoffs and payoffs to a charity organization, while being scanned by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We experimentally induced a reward prediction error (RPE) by subsequently discarding some of the chosen outcomes. Co-localized to a nuc ...[more]