Goal-directed, habitual and Pavlovian prosocial behavior

Although prosocial behaviors have been widely studied across disciplines, the mechanisms underlying them are not fully understood. Evidence from psychology, biology and economics suggests that prosocial behaviors can be driven by a variety of seemingly opposing factors: altruism or egoism, intuition...

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Main Authors: Filip eGęsiarz, Molly J. Crockett
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00135/full