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SUBMITTER: Bortolini T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5700961 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bortolini Tiago T Bado Patrícia P Hoefle Sebastian S Engel Annerose A Zahn Roland R de Oliveira Souza Ricardo R Dreher Jean-Claude JC Moll Jorge J
Scientific reports 20171123 1
Humans have a strong need to belong to social groups and a natural inclination to benefit ingroup members. Although the psychological mechanisms behind human prosociality have extensively been studied, the specific neural systems bridging group belongingness and altruistic motivation remain to be identified. Here, we used soccer fandom as an ecological framing of group membership to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying ingroup altruistic behaviour in male fans using event-related functio ...[more]