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Oxytocin Increases Generosity in Humans

Human beings routinely help strangers at costs to themselves. Sometimes the help offered is generous—offering more than the other expects. The proximate mechanisms supporting generosity are not well-understood, but several lines of research suggest a role for empathy. In this study, participants wer...

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Autores principales: Zak, Paul J., Stanton, Angela A., Ahmadi, Sheila
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2040517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17987115
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001128