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Social identity shapes social valuation: evidence from prosocial behavior and vicarious reward

Overview of attention for article published in Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, April 2017
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Title
Social identity shapes social valuation: evidence from prosocial behavior and vicarious reward
Published in
Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, April 2017
DOI 10.1093/scan/nsx045
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Authors

Leor M. Hackel, Jamil Zaki, Jay J. Van Bavel

Abstract

People frequently engage in more prosocial behavior toward members of their own groups, as compared to other groups. Such group-based prosociality may reflect either strategic considerations concerning one's own future outcomes or intrinsic value placed on the outcomes of in-group members. In a functional magnetic resonance imaging experiment, we examined vicarious reward responses to witnessing the monetary gains of in-group and out-group members, as well as prosocial behavior towards both types of individuals. We found that individuals' investment in their group- a motivational component of social identification-tracked the intensity of their responses in ventral striatum to in-group (versus out-group) members' rewards, as well as their tendency towards group-based prosociality. Individuals with strong motivational investment in their group preferred rewards for an in-group member, whereas individuals with low investment preferred rewards for an out-group member. These findings suggest that the motivational importance of social identity-beyond mere similarity to group members-influences vicarious reward and prosocial behavior. More broadly, these findings support a theoretical framework in which salient social identities can influence neural representations of subjective value, and suggest that social preferences can best be understood by examining the identity contexts in which they unfold.

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Unknown 160 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 45 28%
Student > Bachelor 20 13%
Student > Master 16 10%
Researcher 14 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 4%
Other 23 14%
Unknown 35 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 66 41%
Neuroscience 20 13%
Social Sciences 13 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 2%
Other 9 6%
Unknown 44 28%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 32. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 July 2021.
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#271
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#24,809
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