A reward prediction error for charitable donations reveals outcome orientation of donators

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 216-223

  Kuss, Katarina ^a,b   Falk, Armin ^b   Trautner, Peter ^b   Elger, Christian E ^a,b   Weber, Bernd ^a,b   Fliessbach, Klaus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Charitable donations; Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Nucleus accumbens (NAc); Reward processing; Social preferences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BENEFICENCE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REWARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL WELFARE;

ADULT; BENEFICENCE; CHARITIES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; REWARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876306763     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsr088     Document Type: Article

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