Human fronto–mesolimbic networks guide decisions about charitable donation

By Jorge Moll, Frank Krueger, Roland Zahn, M. Pardini, R. de Oliveira-Souza, Jordan Henry Grafman. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2006

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The neuroscience of social decision-making. (2011, positive): “In one study, both accepting a monetary reward and voluntarily donating money to a specific charity activated the ventral tegmental area and the ventral striatum, both components of the mesolimbic dopamine system (Moll et al. 2006).”
The Neurobiology of Decision: Consensus and Controversy (2009, neutral): “…it is important to note that the same neural mechanisms we have described above are now known to operate during social decisions (Barraclough et al., 2004; de Quervain et al., 2004; Dorris and Glimcher, 2004; Hampton et al., 2008; Harbaugh et al., 2007; King-Casas et al., 2005; Moll et al., 2006).”
Game Theory of Mind (2008, background): “In line with this perspective, provisional fMRI evidence suggests that altruism may not be a cognitive faculty that engages theory of mind but is hard-wired and inherently pleasurable, activating subgenual cortex and septal regions; structures intimately related to social attachment and bonding in o”
Social neuroeconomics: the neural circuitry of social preferences. (2007, background): “Ventral tegmental (VTA) and striatal areas are both activa ted by receiving money and non-costly donations, indicating that ‘giving has its own reward’ [29] Across subjects, those who made more costly donations also”
Goal gradient in helping behavior (2013, background): “Mesolimbic reward systems in the brain that activate when we receive rewards also activate when we donate to charity (Moll et al., 2006).”
Genetic Variation in Preferences for Giving and Risk Taking (2009, background): “One study found activation in the striatum both on receiving money and donating to charity (Moll et al. 2006).”
Equitable decision making is associated with neural markers of intrinsic value (2011, background): “Thus this study extends recent prior demonstrations that charitable donation engages reward-related brain regions (27, 28).”
Prosocial spending and well-being: cross-cultural evidence for a psychological universal. (2013, positive): “…has been linked to a set of brain regions implicated in the experience of reward, including the orbital frontal cortex and ventral striatum (Harbaugh, Mayr, & Burghart, 2007; Moll et al., 2006; Tankersley, Stowe, & Huettel, 2007), again suggesting a basic reinforcing property for generosity.”
Prosocial Spending and Happiness (2014, neutral): “As noted above, prosocial spending produces activation in reward areas of the brain (Harbaugh et al., 2007; Moll et al, 2006; Zaki & Mitchell, 2011).”
Interoception in anxiety and depression (2010, background): “frontal cortex are distinctively recruited when altruistic choices prevail over selfish material interests (Moll et al. 2006).”
Mapping the Moral Domain (2011, background): “…in which participants must make tradeoffs between harm and rights (Cushman, Young, & Hauser, 2006; Greene et al., 2009); economic games, which pit fairness against selfinterest (Fehr & Gachter, 2002); and the perennially popular topic of altruism and prosocial behavior (e.g., Moll et al., 2006).”
How Biology Became Social, and What it Means for Social Theory (2014, background): “…have brought to light, respectively, how (1) positive social interactions and altruism may be experienced as rewarding and pleasant in the brain (Moll et al., 2006; Lozada et al., 2011) and how (2) the experience of social rejection and isolation is analogous to the experience of pain…”
Hedonic Adaptation to Positive and Negative Experiences (2010, background): “Th ese fi ndings are not surprising, given that philanthropy has been shown to stimulate two areas of the brain associated with pleasure, euphoria, trust, and cooperation (Moll et al., 2006 ).”
A Literature Review of Empirical Studies of Philanthropy (2010, background): “Recent evidence from neuropsychological studies suggests that donations to charity “elicit neural activity in areas linked to reward processing” (Harbaugh, Mayr, & Burghart, 2007) and “anterior sectors of the prefrontal cortex are distinctively recruited when altruistic choices prevail over selfish ”