Neural responses to ingroup and outgroup members' suffering predict individual differences in costly helping

Neuron

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 149-160

  Hein, Grit ^a   Silani, Giorgia ^a   Preuschoff, Kerstin ^a   Batson, C Daniel ^b   Singer, Tania ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPATHY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COOPERATION; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN RELATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INDIVIDUALITY; MENTAL STRESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMPATHY; GROUP PROCESSES; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PAIN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957319508     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.09.003     Document Type: Article

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