@article{SaulinHornLotzeetal.2022,
  author    = {Saulin, Anne and Horn, Ulrike and Lotze, Martin and Kaiser, Jochen and Hein, Grit},
  title     = {The neural computation of human prosocial choices in complex motivational states},
  series = {NeuroImage},
  volume    = {247},
  journal   = {NeuroImage},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118827},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-265852},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {Motives motivate human behavior. Most behaviors are driven by more than one motive, yet it is unclear how different motives interact and how such motive combinations affect the neural computation of the behaviors they drive. To answer this question, we induced two prosocial motives simultaneously (multi-motive condition) and separately (single motive conditions). After the different motive inductions, participants performed the same choice task in which they allocated points in favor of the other person (prosocial choice) or in favor of themselves (egoistic choice). We used fMRI to assess prosocial choice-related brain responses and drift diffusion modeling to specify how motive combinations affect individual components of the choice process. Our results showed that the combination of the two motives in the multi-motive condition increased participants' choice biases prior to the behavior itself. On the neural level, these changes in initial prosocial bias were associated with neural responses in the bilateral dorsal striatum. In contrast, the efficiency of the prosocial decision process was comparable between the multi-motive and the single-motive conditions. These findings provide insights into the computation of prosocial choices in complex motivational states, the motivational setting that drives most human behaviors .},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{WeissHeinHewig2021,
  author    = {Weiß, Martin and Hein, Grit and Hewig, Johannes},
  title     = {Between joy and sympathy: Smiling and sad recipient faces increase prosocial behavior in the dictator game},
  series = {International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health},
  volume    = {18},
  journal   = {International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health},
  number    = {11},
  doi       = {10.3390/ijerph18116172},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-241106},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {In human interactions, the facial expression of a bargaining partner may contain relevant information that affects prosocial decisions. We were interested in whether facial expressions of the recipient in the dictator game influence dictators´ ehavior. To test this, we conducted an online study (n = 106) based on a modified version of a dictator game. The dictators allocated money between themselves and another person (recipient), who had no possibility to respond to the dictator. Importantly, before the allocation decision, the dictator was presented with the facial expression of the recipient (angry, disgusted, sad, smiling, or neutral). The results showed that dictators sent more money to recipients with sad or smiling facial expressions and less to recipients with angry or disgusted facial expressions compared with a neutral facial expression. Moreover, based on the sequential analysis of the decision and the interaction partner in the preceding trial, we found that decision-making depends upon previous interactions.},
  language  = {en}
}