Roger,

Do you have access to the PDF?  Can you send it to me?  Thanks.

Merle

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote:

> In today's issue of Science,
> http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6277/1074
>
> Goal-directed human behaviors are driven by motives. Motives are, however,
> purely mental constructs that are not directly observable. Here, we show
> that the brain’s functional network architecture captures information that
> predicts different motives behind the same altruistic act with high
> accuracy. In contrast, mere activity in these regions contains no
> information about motives. Empathy-based altruism is primarily
> characterized by a positive connectivity from the anterior cingulate cortex
> (ACC) to the anterior insula (AI), whereas reciprocity-based altruism
> additionally invokes strong positive connectivity from the AI to the ACC
> and even stronger positive connectivity from the AI to the ventral
> striatum. Moreover, predominantly selfish individuals show distinct
> functional architectures compared to altruists, and they only increase
> altruistic behavior in response to empathy inductions, but not reciprocity
> inductions.
>
> Evidently based on subject self reporting "with high accuracy".
>
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