altruism & the brain
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Dharol Tankersley Cognitive Affective and Social Neuroscience January 23, 2007
Neural Mechanisms of
Altruism
Dharol Tankersley Department of Philosophy Brain Imaging and Analysis Center
Other-Regarding Preferences
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Dharol Tankersley Cognitive Affective and Social Neuroscience January 23, 2007
• Altruism • Social Reward • Social Preference
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Dharol Tankersley Cognitive Affective and Social Neuroscience January 23, 2007
Overview
Ø I. Other-Regarding Preferences Ø II. Social Reward
Ø Experiment 1: Altruism & Social Reward Processing
Ø III. Social Perception
Ø Experiment 2: Altruism & Social Perception
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Dharol Tankersley Cognitive Affective and Social Neuroscience January 23, 2007
I. Preference
< “Preference”
Preference – Psychological mechanism of choice – Inferred from behavior
“Altruism”
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Dharol Tankersley Cognitive Affective and Social Neuroscience January 23, 2007
Types of preference
¬ Self-Regarding ¬ Other-Regarding
Preference to help/ harm others at personal cost
Preferences are utility maximizing
Homo Economicus Homo Altruisticus
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Dharol Tankersley Cognitive Affective and Social Neuroscience January 23, 2007
Revealing other-regarding preferences
Trust Game
Coop Defect
Coop
Defect
2,2 3,0
1,1 0,3
Prisoner’s Dilemma
P1
P2
P1 - 10
Ultimatum Game
Fair
5,5
P2
Accept
Unfair
8,2
Reject
0,0 0,0
Coop Defect
P1 - 40
25,25
P2
15,30
20,20
10,20
45
50
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Dictator game
P1 - 10
P2 0
10
5
5
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Individual differences
15%
p Pleasure
n Choice frequency
Homo Economicus Homo Altruisticus
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Dharol Tankersley Cognitive Affective and Social Neuroscience January 23, 2007
Overview
Ø I. Other-Regarding Preferences Ø II. Social Reward
Ø III. Social Perception
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“Reward Regions”
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Dharol Tankersley Cognitive Affective and Social Neuroscience January 23, 2007
II. Neural Mechanisms of Social Reward
• King-Casas et. al., Science 2005
Trust Punishment
• Moll et. al., PNAS 2006
• Rilling et. al., Neuron 2002
25,25
P1 20,20
15,30 P2
• de Quervain et. al., Science 2004
P1
P2
20,20
25,25
15,30
10,20 Cooperation
Giving
P1
2,2 3,0
1,1 0,3
P1
P2
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Experiment 1
• Hypothesis:
Differences in striatum activity during receipt of personal and charitable rewards will be smaller for subjects with strong ORPs than for subjects with weak ORPs
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E1: Overview Charity Selection Task Survey
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American Red Cross
Easter Seals – United Cerebral Palsey
Animal Protection Society
Durham Literacy Center
Charity Selection Task Survey • Local • Apolitical • Varied
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Subject Charity
Com
pute
r Su
bjec
t
Recipient
Play
er
Charitable Reward
Personal Reward
Altruistic Action
Selfish Action
Charity Selection Task Survey
You will play for Easter Seals +
Easter Seals
wins a Dukat!
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You
will play for
Easter Seals
Easter Seals
wins
a Dukat!
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Charity Selection Task Survey
SRAS
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A priori cluster analysis
1. I have helped push a stranger’s car out of the snow.
12. I have given a stranger a lift in my car.
4. I have given money to a charity.
5. I have given money to a stranger who needed it.
19. I have offered my seat on a bus or a train to a stranger who was standing.
Tree Diagram for 21 VariablesSingle Linkage
Euclidean distances
V9V20
V21V10
V6V4
V8V5
V17V12
V7V11
V3V15
V14V19
V18V16
V13V2
V13.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
7.5
Link
age
Dist
ance
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[Playing > Watching]
R
mPFC
STR
dlPFC
Right Striatum 0.40%
15s 0s
BO
LD S
igna
l (%
) Trial
Onset q Charitable Reward q Personal Reward q Selfish Action q Charitable Action
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Individual differences in ORPs tracked by striatum
• Moll et. al., PNAS 2006 • Harbaugh et. al., in progress
Frequency of donation correlates with BOLD response to donations in striatum.
Striatal activation during receipt of money inversely predicts activation during donation.
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Right STC .15%
-0.15% B
OLD
Sig
nal (
%)
Trial Onset
15s 0s
q Charitable Reward q Personal Reward q Selfish Action q Charitable Action
[Watching > Playing]
lSTC PCC
rSTC
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Saxe & Kanwisher, NeuroImage 2003.
[Theory of Mind]
Saxe & Wexler, Neuropsychologia 2005.
[Belief Attribution]
Z = 24 X = 4
Y = –60
R
R
[Watching > Playing]
Subject-receiving Charity-receiving
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SRAS scores predict pSTC activity
pSTC signal (Δ%) by altruism (z-score)
+3
0.5%
–0.25%
r = 0.57, P = 0.002
–3
Low altruism
High altruism
pSTC
BO
LD s
igna
l (Δ
%)
0.15
– 0.15
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Agency attribution and altruism
• pSTC
• Task
Agent Goal Help
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Dharol Tankersley Cognitive Affective and Social Neuroscience January 23, 2007
Overview
Ø I. Other-Regarding Preferences Ø II. Social Reward
Ø III. Social Perception
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n Low-level visual perception n Target detection n Oddball
n Social Perception n Theory of Mind n Goal detection
III. Social Perception Mechanisms
E1
n pSTC coordinates for E1
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pSTC tasks
Castelli et. al., Neuroimage 2002
Saxe et al Neuropsychologia 2004
Vollm et al NeuroImage 2006
Aichorn et al NeuroImage 2005
Intention attribution
Goal attribution
Mental state detection
Perspective taking
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Altruism & pSTC
Altruism
pSTC Empathy
??
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Dharol Tankersley Cognitive Affective and Social Neuroscience January 23, 2007
• Hypothesis 1: Differences in striatum activity during receipt of personal and charitable rewards will be smaller for subjects with strong ORPs than for subjects with weak ORPs
• Hypothesis 2:
Differences in right pSTC activity during Watching trials will be greater for subjects with strong ORPs than for subjects with weak ORPs - Exploratory: Other traits might mediate
?
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E2: Overview
• Blocked Design
• Control Condition
• Graphics
Charitable Reward
Personal Reward
Altruistic Action
Selfish Action Control
Charity Selection Task Survey
+ will play for
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will play for
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• Impulsivity: BIS
• Empathy: IRI • Personality: NEO • Helping Behavior: SRAS & PAL • Fairness: (Allocation)
Charity Selection Task Survey
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PAL Scale
Charity Selection Task Survey
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[Watching > Playing]
OFC Right pSTC
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pSTC signal (ΔPE) by PAL (z-score)
+2
6
–3
r = 0.57, P = 0.01 –2
0.6
–1
pSTC
BO
LD s
igna
l (Δ
PE)
High altruism
Low altruism
pSTC activity specific to altruism
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STC Models
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“Biological”… or “Meaningful”?
E1
E2
Pelphrey et al. Cerebral Cortex, 2005.
Pelphrey et. al. J Neurosci 2003.
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STC: “Meaning” vs. Movement
“Disposition or movements of an animate object (agent) relative to a part of the environment (goal or object of the action).”
Perrett et al. J Exp. Biol. 1989.
Goal-Centered ↑
Object-Centered ↑
Viewer-Centered • Combinatorial representation
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Precursor mechanism
• Empathy • ToM
• Imitation
• Emotion
Blair, Consc. & Cog., 2005.
Allison et al., Cog Sciences., 2003.
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Summary
• ORPs explain variation in helping behavior
• Reward regions might track ORPs
• Individual differences in altruism exist in
early perceptual processing
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Future directions
• Development
• Individual differences in sensitivities to various types of social reward
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Acknowledgments Co-authors on Manuscript • Jill Stowe • Scott Huettel Assistance in Data Collection • Erin Douglas • Steve Green
Comments on Manuscript and Research • Greg McCarthy • Jamie Morris • Kevin Pelphrey • Dale Purves • Bethany Weber
External support • NIMH R01-70685 • NINDS P01-41328 (Project 2)
DOI: 10.1038/nn1833
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