The project investigates the role of incentives (which kind of prosocial benefit is achieved and at what cost) and of uncertainty (how certain an individual is that their prosocial act will affect the well-being of the other person) on our motivation to act in a prosocial way. Leveraging novel experimental paradigms, computational modeling, and tailored neuroimaging methods, the project aims to advance our understanding of the cognitive and neural mechanisms underpinning human prosocial motivation and the identification of factors that promote prosociality.
The project is funded by the Austrian Science Fund: https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-radar/10.55776/PAT1936023