讲座人：Dr. Frank Krueger

主持人：臧玉峰                                                                      

时间：2019年12月12日上午10：30-11:30

地点：恕园19-308教室

主办单位：杭州师范大学心理科学研究院

个人简介：

Dr. Frank Krueger is Associate Professor of Systems Social Neuroscience at the School of Systems Biology at George Mason University. He is Chief of the Social Cognition & Interaction: Functionalism & Immersion (SCI:FI) Lab and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Neuroeconomics. As a psychologist and neuroscientist, Dr. Krueger is interested in understanding the psychological functions (i.e., why they exist and work) and the proximate neurobiological mechanisms (i.e., how they work) of social cognition (e.g., beliefs, schemata) and social interactions (e.g., trust, reciprocity) combining methods from social psychology, behavioral economics, and social neuroscience.

主要内容：

Prosocial behaviors are hypothesized to require the understanding of another person’s goals and empathic concerns—engaging brain regions attributed to the mentalizing and empathy networks. Here, we tested this hypothesis with a coordinate-based meta-analysis of 600 neuroimaging studies (~12,000 individuals). Our results showed that the prosociality neural network only partially overlaps with brain regions associated with mentalizing abilities (dorsal posterior cingulate cortex) and empathic concerns (middle cingulate cortex). In addition to these regions, we observed brain areas that were preferentially activated by prosocial behaviors and associated with different cognitive and affective domains (ventromedial and dorsolateral prefrontal cortices). We propose that in addition to processes related to mentalizing and empathic concern, prosocial behaviors further require integrative computations for prospective outcome evaluations of prosocial acts and selection of the appropriate other-regarding actions. Our work provides valuable insights into human social behaviors by proposing a neuropsychological model of the multidimensional construct of prosociality.