Following a key developmental task of childhood—building a foundation of self‐knowledge
in the form of domain‐specific self‐concepts—adolescents begin to explore their emerging …

Highlights•Welfare tradeoffs involve sacrificing personal welfare to increase another's
welfare.•Although making welfare tradeoffs feels easy, this hides complex computations.• …

Generous behaviour is known to increase happiness, which could thereby motivate
generosity. In this study, we use functional magnetic resonance imaging and a public pledge …

We propose a neurocomputational model of altruistic choice and test it using behavioral and
fMRI data from a task in which subjects make choices between real monetary prizes for …

The decision to share resources is fundamental for cohesive societies. Humans can be
motivated to give for many reasons. Some generosity incurs a definite cost, with no extrinsic …

Women are known to have stronger prosocial preferences than men, but it remains an open
question as to how these behavioural differences arise from differences in brain functioning …

Neurobiological models of self-control predominantly focus on the role of prefrontal brain
mechanisms involved in emotion regulation and impulse control. We provide evidence for …

Social decision making involves balancing conflicts between selfishness and pro-sociality.
The cognitive processes underlying such decisions are not well understood, with some …

Acts of extraordinary, costly altruism, in which significant risks or costs are assumed to
benefit strangers, have long represented a motivational puzzle. But the features that …

Humans exhibit considerable variation in how they value their own interest relative to the
interests of others. Deciphering the neural codes representing potential rewards for self and …