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| Title |
The Cultivation of Pure Altruism via Gratitude: A Functional MRI Study of Change with Gratitude Practice
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, December 2017
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00599 |
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| Authors |
Christina M. Karns, William E. Moore, Ulrich Mayr |
| Abstract |
Gratitude is an emotion and a trait linked to well-being and better health, and welcoming benefits to oneself is instrumentally valuable. However, theoretical and empirical work highlights that gratitude is more fully understood as an intrinsically valuable moral emotion. To understand the role of neural reward systems in the association between gratitude and altruistic motivations we tested two hypotheses: First, whether self-reported propensity toward gratitude relates to fMRI-derived indicators of "pure altruism," operationalized as the neural valuation of passive, private transfers to a charity versus to oneself. In young adult female participants, self-reported gratitude and altruism were associated with "neural pure altruism" in ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) and nucleus accumbens. Second, whether neural pure altruism can be increased through practicing gratitude. In a double-blind study, we randomly assigned participants to either a gratitude-journal or active-neutral control journal group for 3 weeks. Relative to pre-test levels, gratitude journaling increased the neural pure altruism response in the VMPFC. We posit that as a context-dependent value-sensitive cortical region, the VMPFC supports change with gratitude practice, a change that is larger for benefits to others versus oneself. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 38 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 10 | 26% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 8% |
| India | 2 | 5% |
| Russia | 1 | 3% |
| Turkey | 1 | 3% |
| Australia | 1 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| North Macedonia | 1 | 3% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 3 | 8% |
| Unknown | 14 | 37% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 25 | 66% |
| Scientists | 9 | 24% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 8% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 149 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 149 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 22 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 21 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 21 | 14% |
| Researcher | 13 | 9% |
| Other | 8 | 5% |
| Other | 19 | 13% |
| Unknown | 45 | 30% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 57 | 38% |
| Neuroscience | 9 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 6 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 2% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 21 | 14% |
| Unknown | 50 | 34% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 552. 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 23 November 2023.
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