Figure 3: Commitment to be generous enhanced TPJ activity during decisions to be generous. | Nature Communications

Figure 3: Commitment to be generous enhanced TPJ activity during decisions to be generous.

From: A neural link between generosity and happiness

Figure 3

(a) Compared to the control group participants, the experimental group participants showed significantly greater TPJ activation ((−51, −70, 34), t(46)=4.70) while accepting versus rejecting a personal cost to benefit another person. (b) Parameter estimates of the accept versus reject contrast, extracted from the TPJ region that showed significant group differences. Error bars are s.e.m.

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