Oxytocin Increases Generosity in Humans

Quora referenced this article in "What is the relationship between empathy and authenticity?" on 28 Apr 2011 at 17:43 GMT

"Actually, empathy seems to be a function of brain activity, most likely the result of activity by mirror neurons as well as oxytocin. The evolution of this ability would have been adaptive because it allowed humans to cooperate better. Tying this trait to the vague concept of imagination makes it more difficult to discuss, and, thanks to fMRI, we can discuss this ability in a more concrete way. This discussion is also hampered by the lack of a clear definition of authenticity, which is something that has not been teased out by brain scans. See "Mirror Neuron: A Neurological Approach to Empathy." www.robotcub.org/misc/papers/06_Rizzolatti_Craighero.pdf and "Oxytocin Increases Generosity in Humans." http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0001128 BTW, there also seems to be a genetic component to empathy."

Public Library of Science referenced this article in "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Kluge" on 30 May 2008 at 15:08 GMT

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Amigdala.info referenced this article in "L’ossitocina aumenta la generosità tra gli esseri umani" on 24 Nov 2007 at 19:54 GMT

"I meccanismi alla base della generosità umana non sono ancora chiari. Alcune teorie propongono che alla base della generosità ci sia l’empatia, cioè dalla capacità di comprendere le emozioni altrui. Una ricerca pubblicata su PlosOne ha cerc..."

A Blog Around The Clock referenced this article in "New and Exciting in PLoS ONE" on 07 Nov 2007 at 01:11 GMT

"Oxytocin makes you generous, cocaine makes you high, hearing without listening, remembering smells when your brain is fried, when water breaks, early human migrations, green tea is good for you, fragmentation is bad for trout, chemicals are bad for head lice, and rains drown mosquitoes."