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View article: Psychological interventions that decrease psychological distance or challenge system justification increase motivation to exert effort to mitigate climate change
Psychological interventions that decrease psychological distance or challenge system justification increase motivation to exert effort to mitigate climate change Open
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing humanity. To limit its damaging impacts, billions of people must take pro-environmental actions. However, these often require effort and people avoid effort. It is vital to identify ps…
View article: Psychological interventions that decrease psychological distance or challenge system justification increase motivation to exert effort to mitigate climate change
Psychological interventions that decrease psychological distance or challenge system justification increase motivation to exert effort to mitigate climate change Open
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing humanity. To limit its damaging impacts, billions of people must take pro-environmental actions. However, these often require effort and people avoid effort. It is vital to identify ps…
View article: Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others
Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others Open
Most prosocial and antisocial behaviors simultaneously impact both ourselves and others, requiring us to learn from their joint outcomes to guide future choices. However, the neurocomputational processes supporting such social learning rem…
View article: Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal discounting
Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal discounting Open
The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has long been associated with economic and social decision-making in neuroimaging studies. Several debates question whether different ventral mPFC (vmPFC) and dorsal mPFC (dmPFC) regions have specific fu…
View article: Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal discounting
Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal discounting Open
The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has long been associated with economic and social decision-making in neuroimaging studies. Several debates question whether different ventromedial PFC (vmPFC) and dorsomedial PFC (dmPFC) regions have spe…
View article: Ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions disrupt learning to reward others
Ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions disrupt learning to reward others Open
Reinforcement learning is a fundamental process through which humans and other animals attain rewards for themselves. However, to act prosocially, we must also learn how our choices reward others. The ventromedial prefrontal cortex has bee…
View article: Greater income and financial well-being are associated with higher prosocial preferences and behaviors across 76 countries
Greater income and financial well-being are associated with higher prosocial preferences and behaviors across 76 countries Open
Prosocial preferences and behaviors—defined as those that benefit others—are essential for health, well-being, and a society that can effectively respond to global challenges. Identifying factors that may increase or decrease them is there…
View article: Dopamine boosts motivation for prosocial effort in Parkinson’s disease
Dopamine boosts motivation for prosocial effort in Parkinson’s disease Open
Being willing to exert effort to obtain rewards is a key component of motivation. Previous research has shown that boosting dopamine can increase the willingness to choose to exert effort to obtain rewards for ourselves. Yet often we must …
View article: Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal impulsivity
Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal impulsivity Open
The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has long been associated with economic and social decision-making in neuroimaging studies. Several debates question whether different ventromedial PFC (vmPFC) and dorsomedial PFC (dmPFC) regions have spe…
View article: Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal discounting
Dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions differentially impact social influence and temporal discounting Open
The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has long been associated with economic and social decision-making in neuroimaging studies. Several debates question whether different ventromedial PFC (vmPFC) and dorsomedial PFC (dmPFC) regions have spe…
View article: Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries
Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries Open
Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced i…
View article: Humans decide to help others more often in poor environments
Humans decide to help others more often in poor environments Open
Prosocial behaviours are essential for solving global challenges. Typically these behaviours are measured using economic games or tasks where people decide between helping or not. However, in everyday life, current behaviours are interrupt…
View article: Dopamine boosts motivation for prosocial effort in Parkinson’s disease
Dopamine boosts motivation for prosocial effort in Parkinson’s disease Open
Being willing to exert effort to obtain rewards is a key component of motivation. Previous research has shown that boosting dopamine can increase the willingness to choose to exert effort to obtain rewards for ourselves. Yet often we must …
View article: Large-scale cross-societal examination of real- and minimal-group biases
Large-scale cross-societal examination of real- and minimal-group biases Open
Biases in favor of culturally prevalent social ingroups are ubiquitous, but random assignment to arbitrary experimentally created social groups is also sufficient to create ingroup biases (i.e., the minimal group effect; MGE). The extent t…
View article: Large-scale cross-societal examination of real- and minimal-group biases
Large-scale cross-societal examination of real- and minimal-group biases Open
Biases in favor of culturally prevalent social ingroups are ubiquitous, but random assignment to arbitrary experimentally created social groups is also sufficient to create ingroup biases (i.e., the minimal group effect; MGE). The extent t…
View article: Psychological interventions that decrease psychological distance or challenge system justification increase motivation to exert effort to mitigate climate change
Psychological interventions that decrease psychological distance or challenge system justification increase motivation to exert effort to mitigate climate change Open
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing humanity. To limit its damaging impacts, billions of people must take pro-environmental actions. However, these often require effort and people avoid effort. It is vital to identify ps…
View article: Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries
Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries Open
Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced i…
View article: Reduced prosocial motivation and effort in adolescents with conduct problems and callous‐unemotional traits
Reduced prosocial motivation and effort in adolescents with conduct problems and callous‐unemotional traits Open
Background Prosocial behaviours – acts that benefit others – are of crucial importance for many species including humans. However, adolescents with conduct problems (CP), unlike their typically developing (TD) peers, demonstrate markedly r…
View article: Greater wealth is associated with higher prosocial preferences and behaviours across 76 countries
Greater wealth is associated with higher prosocial preferences and behaviours across 76 countries Open
Prosocial preferences and behaviours – defined as those that benefit others – are essential for health, well-being, and a society that can effectively respond to global challenges. Research has therefore focussed on factors that may increa…
View article: Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others
Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others Open
Most prosocial and antisocial behaviors simultaneously impact both ourselves and others, requiring us to learn from their joint outcomes to guide future choices. However, the neurocomputational processes supporting such social learning rem…
View article: Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others
Neurocomputational basis of learning when choices simultaneously affect both oneself and others Open
Most prosocial and antisocial behaviors simultaneously impact both ourselves and others, requiring us to learn from their joint outcomes to guide future choices. However, the neurocomputational processes supporting such social learning rem…
View article: L-DOPA and oxytocin influence the neurocomputational mechanisms of self-benefitting and prosocial reinforcement learning
L-DOPA and oxytocin influence the neurocomputational mechanisms of self-benefitting and prosocial reinforcement learning Open
Humans learn through reinforcement, particularly when outcomes are unexpected. Recent research suggests similar mechanisms drive how we learn to benefit other people, that is, how we learn to be prosocial. Yet the neurochemical mechanisms …
View article: Seeking information about outcomes affecting other people shows a preference for good news
Seeking information about outcomes affecting other people shows a preference for good news Open
Information about other people is vital for understanding the world, social relationships, and providing help. With so much information available, we must constantly choose whether to seek or avoid it. These choices depend on our preferenc…
View article: Reward processing and reinforcement learning: from adolescence to aging
Reward processing and reinforcement learning: from adolescence to aging Open
The neurocognitive systems that underlie the ability to process rewards and learn from reinforcement undergo substantial changes across the adult lifespan. Adolescence is often characterized as a developmental period with a heightened sens…