Trial reportScience advances2016
Brain stimulation reveals crucial role of overcoming self-centeredness in self-control.
Trial report in Science advances, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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56 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- The role of oxytocin in delay of gratification and flexibility in non-social decision making.eLife · 2021Trial
- Temporoparietal Junction Selectively Mediates Social Projection in Mentalizing.Neuroscience bulletin · 2026Article
- Self-allocation bias in performance-based cooperative decisions is driven by self-interest rather than distorted performance encoding.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- Augmentation of frontoparietal gamma-band phase coupling enhances human altruistic behavior.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- Delaying rewards reduces egoism bias during prosocial acts.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2026Article
- Mindfulness training reduces the preference for proenvironmental outcomes.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Neural reward system reflects individual value comparison strategy in cost-benefit decisions.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Tipping the balance between fairness and efficiency through temporoparietal stimulation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Causal involvement of dorsomedial prefrontal cortex in learning the predictability of observable actions.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Positive autobiographical memory recall does not influence temporal discounting: an internal meta-analysis of experimental studies.Journal Of Economic Psychology · 2024Article
- Causal Roles of Ventral and Dorsal Neural Systems for Automatic and Control Self-Reference Processing: A Function Lesion Mapping Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- The impact of incidental anxiety on the neural signature of mentalizing.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Intertemporal prosocial behavior: a review and research agenda.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- The role of prefrontal cortex and temporoparietal junction in interpersonal comfort and emotional approach.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The Causal Role of Temporoparietal Junction in Mediating Self-Other Mergence during Mentalizing.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Causal roles of prefrontal and temporo-parietal theta oscillations for inequity aversion.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2023Article
- The Willpower Paradox: Possible and Impossible Conceptions of Self-Control.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2023Article
- Neural responses underlying extraordinary altruists' generosity for socially distant others.PNAS nexus · 2023Article
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Abstract
Neurobiological models of self-control predominantly focus on the role of prefrontal brain mechanisms involved in emotion regulation and impulse control. We provide evidence for an entirely different neural mechanism that promotes self-control by overcoming bias for the present self, a mechanism previously thought to be mainly important for interpersonal decision-making. In two separate studies, we show that disruptive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) of the temporo-parietal junction-a brain region involved in overcoming one's self-centered perspective-increases the discounting of delayed and prosocial rewards. This effect of TMS on temporal and social discounting is accompanied by deficits in perspective-taking and does not reflect altered spatial reorienting and number recognition. Our findings substantiate a fundamental commonality between the domains of self-control and social decision-making and highlight a novel aspect of the neurocognitive processes involved in self-control.
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