Why do we help some people but not to others?

According to RCO News AgencyThe researchers, seeing samples in an animal test for “Helping Behavior”, found that mice were more likely to help peers with positive social experiences with them.

According to STDs, areas in their brains that are related to empathy and motivation are activated. Interestingly, Oxytocin hormone plays an important role in this process.

Researchers say mice with higher oxytocin activity are more motivated to help.

Why do some people tend to help?

The study was conducted by Inbal Bartal of the University of Tel Aviv and his colleagues. They studied this question by studying the mice and wanted to find out why some people are more sensitive to the discomfort of others and how this sensitivity becomes useful.

Using the previously developed experiment, the team observed the behavior and brain activity of mice that either had a high desire to help or tend to help.

In this experiment, a free mouse had the opportunity to release a pedestrian mouse trapped in a small cage.

They found that if mice already have positive social experiences with mice, they tend to help it, and mice with high tendency have more activity in the brain -related areas of empathy and motivation.

What is the role of oxytocin in creating a sense of motivation?

Researchers also observed that mice tended to help the recipient of more oxytocin in an area of ​​the brain that motivates. According to the researchers, this could mean that taking care of others more than communicating with the distress of others helps to feel useful.

When the oxytocin receptors were inhibited, the mice were less friendly with others. This shows that this hormone may also support the sense of helping others by creating a sense of attachment in mice to another.

“We seem to be living in a polar society where there is a gap in empathy for others,” says Bartal. This helps us to better understand social or useful behaviors. We always see others in distress, but we tend to only help certain people. The resemblance between the human brain and the mouse helps us to understand how our brain mediates social decisions.

This study is published in the journal Jneurosci.

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