Alcohol, generosity and empathy

Empathy toward strangers triggers oxytocin release and subsequent generosity.

Empathy is related to a variety of prosocial behaviors, but the brain mechanisms producing the experience of empathy have not been fully characterized. This study investigated whether the experience of empathy raises oxytocin levels and affects subsequent generosity toward strangers. Short video clips of an emotional scene and an unemotional scene were used as stimuli. Participants rated the em...

Capacity for cognitive and emotional empathy in alcohol-dependent patients.

This study assessed two previously unexplored facets of empathy in alcohol-dependent patients (ADs) divided into two groups according to Cloninger's alcoholism typology: the attribution of intentions according to emotional facial expressions (EFEs) and emotional contagion in reaction to EFEs. Twenty-three male Type-I ADs, 21 male Type-II ADs, and 24 male control participants were compared in tw...

Methodological Individualism and Generosity

Today a convergence between the fields of anthropology and economics has re-emerged after decades during which the dictates of methodological individualism, as strikingly elucidated by Kenneth Arrow, had seriously limited and hampered effective scholarship in studies of economic and social development in developing countries. A new generation of development economists represented by Spolaori an...

Genericity, Generosity, and Tori

Bruno Poizat is associated, among other things, with broadening the scope of the theory of groups of finite Morley rank to the level of stable groups [P87], in keeping with the general trend of the development of model theory from Morley to Shelah. But this has not prevented him from taking an active interest in such aspects of the theory as are associated more particularly with the case of fin...

Serendipity, Generosity, and Inspiration