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ArticleHuman brain mapping2019

Neural traits characterize unconditional cooperators, conditional cooperators, and noncooperators in group-based cooperation.

Thomas Baumgartner, Franziska M Dahinden, Lorena R R Gianotti, Daria Knoch

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Article in Human brain mapping, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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  1. Human Prosocial Preferences Are Related to Slow-Wave Activity in Sleep.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  4. The prefrontal cortex and (uniquely) human cooperation: a comparative perspective.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2022
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Thomas BaumgartnerDepartment of Social Psychology and Social Neuroscience, Institute of Psychology, University of Bern, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-5966-7377
Franziska M DahindenDepartment of Social Psychology and Social Neuroscience, Institute of Psychology, University of Bern, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1769-1106
Lorena R R GianottiDepartment of Social Psychology and Social Neuroscience, Institute of Psychology, University of Bern, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-5283-7684
Daria KnochDepartment of Social Psychology and Social Neuroscience, Institute of Psychology, University of Bern, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-1935-053X

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Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung 100019_166006
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Contributing to and maintaining public goods are important for a functioning society. In reality, however, we see large variations in contribution behavior. While some individuals are not cooperative, others are highly so. Still others cooperate only to the extent they believe others will. Although these distinct behavioral types clearly have a divergent social impact, the sources of heterogeneity are poorly understood. We used source-localized resting electroencephalography in combination with a model-free clustering approach to participants' behavior in the Public Goods Game to explain heterogeneity. Findings revealed that compared to noncooperators, both conditional cooperators and unconditional cooperators are characterized by higher baseline activation in the right temporo-parietal junction, an area involved in social cognition. Interestingly, conditional cooperators were further characterized by higher baseline activation in the left lateral prefrontal cortex, an area involved in behavioral control. Our findings suggest that conditional cooperators' better capacities for behavioral control enable them to control their propensity to cooperate and thus to minimize the risk of exploitation by noncooperators.

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Cooperative BehaviorGames, ExperimentalGroup ProcessesAltruismElectroencephalographyFemaleHumansIndividualityMaleParietal LobePersonalityPrefrontal CortexTemporal LobeYoung Adultcooperationneural traitpublic goods gameresting electroencephalography

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PMID31313437
PMCPMC6773361

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