Alexithymia decreases altruism in real social decisions

2012/11/06 by Oriel FeldmanHall, Tim Dalgleish, Dean Mobbs · 1 citation
Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Action Observation and Synchronization #Affect (linguistics) #Alexithymia #Altruism (biology) #Clinical psychology #Cognition #Developmental psychology #Distress #Functional magnetic resonance imaging #Insula #Neuroscience #Personal distress #Personality #Perspective (graphical) #Prefrontal cortex #Prosocial behavior #Psychiatry #Psychology #Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment #Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments #Social psychology #Temporoparietal junction

paper · doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2012.10.015

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• Alexithymia [wikipedia]