Why do we enjoy collaborating with others?

We measured brain activity while participants played an interactive game with both friends and strangers and found that people appear to experience greater rewards when friends choose to reciprocate trust compared to friends. This reward signal is sufficiently strong to maintain collaborations even when the friend was flakey and didn’t whole up their end of the collaboration.

Authors

Dominic S. Fareri, Luke J. Chang, Mauricio R. Delgado

Publication

The Journal of Neuroscience

May 27, 2015

Why do we enjoy collaborating with others?

May 27, 2015

Authors

Dominic S. Fareri, Luke J. Chang, Mauricio R. Delgado

Project communication

Funding for this research was generously provided by: