| Budget Amount *help |
¥78,780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥60,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥18,180,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥14,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥11,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,450,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥15,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥11,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,480,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥14,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥11,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,450,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥15,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥11,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,480,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥18,720,000 (Direct Cost: ¥14,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,320,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
1) Investigation of neuro-cognitive bases of empathy underlying social interaction: Through a series of experiments with humans and computational models, we have shown that human empathy is a multi-facet system composed of emotional and cognitive subsystems. We showed that: (a) RTPJ, recruited in strategic planning in competitive games, is also engaged when people consider welfare of the most unfortunate others in social distribution; and (b) warm empathy, which is recruited in helping unfortunate ingroup members, produces external inefficiency when helping outgroup members.
2)Investigation of social-niche construction using empathy: By assigning various experimental games as a battery, we have identified core dimensions underlying human cooperation. We showed that: (a) cortical thickness of DLPFC is related to individual differences in strategic behaviors in games; (b) Testosterone is related to maintenance of social orders in groups; and (c) OXTR rs53576 is related to human trust.
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