Stress Hormone Reduces Altruistic Behavior in Empathetic People (IMAGE)

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Stress Hormone Reduces Altruistic Behavior in Empathetic People

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Decoding accuracies in a subset of these brain areas (yellow) were increased with higher mentalizing capacity.

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Schulreich et al., JNeurosci 2022.

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