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SUBMITTER: Izuma K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3198313 | biostudies-other | 2011 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Izuma Keise K Matsumoto Kenji K Camerer Colin F CF Adolphs Ralph R
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20111010 42
People act more prosocially when they know they are watched by others, an everyday observation borne out by studies from behavioral economics, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. This effect is thought to be mediated by the incentive to improve one's social reputation, a specific and possibly uniquely human motivation that depends on our ability to represent what other people think of us. Here we tested the hypothesis that social reputation effects are selectively impaired in autism, ...[more]