Identifying Neural Correlates of Altruism
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 67
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Social Discounting
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose of the study is to look at the impact of a metta meditation training on prosocial behavior and socio-affective brain responses. The training involves an 8-week, online administration of guided metta meditation practices aimed at generating feelings of kindness and compassion for other people. The study examines how participants respond to thinking about familiar others and strangers using behavioral and brain-imaging measures. This study will be important for understanding how people develop the capacity to be prosocial towards other individuals, which is a key component of adaptive social behavior.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Basic Science
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 55 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Is a medically healthy individual
- •Lives in the Washington, D.C. metro area and is able to travel to Georgetown University
排除标准
- •Has experience with meditation
- •Has any MRI contraindication (e.g. metal in the body, cardiac pacemaker, cannot lie still, etc.)
- •Has any neurological disease
- •Has a current psychiatric disorder
- •Is pregnant or planning to become pregnant
- •Is on medication that affects the central nervous system (e.g. psychotropic drugs)
结局指标
主要结局
Social Discounting
时间窗: 8 weeks
During functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning, participants will complete a social discounting task. Participants will choose whether to forgo various amounts of money to give to another person. Behavioral and brain responses will be analyzed to assess social discounting in each participant.
Affective Brain Responses to Familiar and Unfamiliar Others
时间窗: 8 weeks
During functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning, participants will view images of people who they know and people who they do not know. Affective brain response patterns will be analyzed to assess responding in each participant.
次要结局
- State Affect Rating(8 weeks)