Luo Jun
Neuro & Behavior EconLab, School of Economics, Center for Economic Behavior and Decision-Making, Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics, Hangzhou, China.
Front Psychol. 2018 Jun 5;9:859. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00859. eCollection 2018.
Pro-social behaviors are voluntary behaviors that benefit other people or society as a whole, such as charitable donations, cooperation, trust, altruistic punishment, and fairness. These behaviors have been widely described through non self-interest decision-making in behavioral experimental studies and are thought to be increased by social preference motives. Importantly, recent studies using a combination of neuroimaging and brain stimulation, designed to reveal the neural mechanisms of pro-social behaviors, have found that a wide range of brain areas, specifically the prefrontal cortex, anterior insula, anterior cingulate cortex, and amygdala, are correlated or causally related with pro-social behaviors. In this review, we summarize the research on the neural basis of various kinds of pro-social behaviors and describe a common shared neural circuitry of these pro-social behaviors. We introduce several general ways in which experimental economics and neuroscience can be combined to develop important contributions to understanding social decision-making and pro-social behaviors. Future research should attempt to explore the neural circuitry between the frontal lobes and deeper brain areas.
亲社会行为是有益于他人或整个社会的自愿行为，如慈善捐赠、合作、信任、利他惩罚和公平。在行为实验研究中，这些行为已通过非自利决策得到广泛描述，并被认为会因社会偏好动机而增加。重要的是，最近结合神经成像和脑刺激的研究旨在揭示亲社会行为的神经机制，发现广泛的脑区，特别是前额叶皮层、前脑岛、前扣带回皮层和杏仁核，与亲社会行为相关或存在因果关系。在本综述中，我们总结了各类亲社会行为神经基础的研究，并描述了这些亲社会行为共同的共享神经回路。我们介绍了几种将实验经济学和神经科学相结合的一般方法，这些方法可为理解社会决策和亲社会行为做出重要贡献。未来的研究应尝试探索额叶与更深层脑区之间的神经回路。
