Moral learning and decision-making across the lifespan

PL Lockwood, W van den Bos… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Moral learning and decision-making are crucial throughout our lives, from infancy to old age.
Emerging evidence suggests that there are important differences in learning and deciding in …

The prefrontal cortex and (uniquely) human cooperation: a comparative perspective

Y Zoh, SWC Chang, MJ Crockett - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022 - nature.com
Humans have an exceptional ability to cooperate relative to many other species. We review
the neural mechanisms supporting human cooperation, focusing on the prefrontal cortex …

Sports gamification: Evaluation of its impact on learning motivation and performance in higher education

T Liu, M Lipowski - International journal of environmental research and …, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this study, the impacts of sports gamification on college students' learning motivation and
learning performances were explored by training students majoring in physical education to …

Right temporoparietal junction underlies avoidance of moral transgression in autism spectrum disorder

Y Hu, AM Pereira, X Gao, BM Campos… - Journal of …, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by a core difference in theory-of-mind
(ToM) ability, which extends to alterations in moral judgment and decision-making. Although …

[HTML][HTML] Higher subjective socioeconomic status is linked to increased charitable giving and mentalizing-related neural value coding

S Schulreich, A Tusche, P Kanske, L Schwabe - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
Socioeconomic status (SES), a concept related to an individual's economic and social
position relative to others, can shape social interactions like altruistic behaviors. However …

Computational and neurobiological substrates of cost-benefit integration in altruistic helping decision

J Hu, Y Hu, Y Li, X Zhou - Journal of Neuroscience, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
Although altruistic behaviors, eg, sacrificing one's own interests to alleviate others' suffering,
are widely observed in human society, altruism varies greatly across individuals. Such …

Brain systems underlying fundamental motivations of human social conformity

X Chen, J Liu, YJ Luo, C Feng - Neuroscience Bulletin, 2023 - Springer
From birth to adulthood, we often align our behaviors, attitudes, and opinions with a majority,
a phenomenon known as social conformity. A seminal framework has proposed that …

Oxytocin modulates neurocomputational mechanisms underlying prosocial reinforcement learning

D Martins, P Lockwood, J Cutler, R Moran… - Progress in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Humans often act in the best interests of others. However, how we learn which actions result
in good outcomes for other people and the neurochemical systems that support this …

[HTML][HTML] Multivariate pattern analysis of electroencephalography data reveals information predictive of charitable giving

Q Huang, D Li, C Zhou, Q Xu, P Li, CM Warren - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
Charitable donations are an altruistic behavior whereby individuals donate money or other
resources to benefit others while the recipient is normally absent from the context. Several …

A computational account of how individuals resolve the dilemma of dirty money

JZ Siegel, E van der Plas, F Heise, JA Clithero… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Money can be tainted when it is associated with direct or indirect harm to others. Deciding
whether to accept “dirty money” poses a dilemma because money can be used to help …