作者
John C. Flournoy, Jennifer H. Pfeifer, William E. Moore, Allison M. Tackman, Carrie L. Masten, John C. Mazziotta, Marco Iacoboni, Mirella Dapretto
发表日期
2016/11/7
期刊
Child Development
卷号
87
期号
6
页码范围
1691-1702
出版商
Wiley
简介
Reactivity to others’ emotions not only can result in empathic concern (EC), an important motivator of prosocial behavior, but can also result in personal distress (PD), which may hinder prosocial behavior. Examining neural substrates of emotional reactivity may elucidate how EC and PD differentially influence prosocial behavior. Participants (N = 57) provided measures of EC, PD, prosocial behavior, and neural responses to emotional expressions at ages 10 and 13. Initial EC predicted subsequent prosocial behavior. Initial EC and PD predicted subsequent reactivity to emotions in the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and inferior parietal lobule, respectively. Activity in the IFG, a region linked to mirror neuron processes, as well as cognitive control and language, mediated the relation between initial EC and subsequent prosocial behavior.
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