期刊
EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
卷 29, 期 6, 页码 375-383出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2008.04.004
关键词
Cooperation; Altruism; Sacrifice; Trust; Touch
资金
- Seaver Institute
- Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research
Humans frequently sacrifice resources to help others-even strangers. The proximate mechanisms inducing such sacrifices are not well understood, and we hypothesized that touch might provoke a sacrifice of money to a stranger. We found that touch significantly elevated circulating oxytocin (OT) levels but only when it was followed by an intentional act of trust. Touch followed by trust increased monetary sacrifice by 243% relative to untouched controls. We also found that women were more susceptible than men to OT release and monetary sacrifice after touch. This suggests that touch draws on physiologic mechanisms that support cooperative behaviors in humans. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据