I believe that all of us have already met a selfish person at least once in our lives. It might be someone from work, or our classmate in school, or even someone we are close to. I also believe that all of us have experienced being the selfish person. But what is really going on in our minds when we think of being generous or selfish? Is there a difference between deciding whether to think about self or others? A recent study at RIKEN suggests that there might be a difference in processing whether to be generous or selfish.
A RIKEN team, led by Hiroyuki Nakahara of the Laboratory for Integrated Theoretical Neuroscience at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science, discovered this when they examined 36 healthy volunteers aged between 20 and 32 years. Their aim was to find out which parts of the brain are activated when considering giving rewards to others.
Find out more about this study over at Neuroscience News.
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