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People with higher interoceptive sensitivity are more altruistic, but improving interoception does not increase altruism

People consistently show preferences and behaviors that benefit others at a cost to themselves, a phenomenon termed altruism. We investigated if perception of one’s body signals – interoception - may be underlying such behaviors. We tested if participants’ sensitivity to their own heartbeat predicte...

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Autores principales: Piech, Richard M., Strelchuk, Daniela, Knights, Jake, Hjälmheden, Jonathan V., Olofsson, Jonas K., Aspell, Jane E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5688159/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29142226
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14318-8