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Cortisol is making you GREEDY.

By OxidativeState · · 1 min read

PubMed: Altruism under Stress: Cortisol Negatively Predicts Charitable Giving and Neural Value Representations Depending on Mentalizing Capacity

Cortisol is making you GREEDY.

35 people were asked donate money inside an fMRI scan with or without a stressor.

The higher their cortisol was the lower the donation they made.

The study

  1. Altruism under Stress: Cortisol Negatively Predicts Charitable Giving and Neural Value Representations Depending on Mentalizing CapacityJ Neurosci · 2022 · PMID 35288436
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