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@article{Story:2015:10.1038/srep15389,
author = {Story, GW and Vlaev, I and Metcalfe, RD and Crockett, MJ and Kurth-Nelson, Z and Darzi, A and Dolan, RJ},
doi = {10.1038/srep15389},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
title = {Social redistribution of pain and money},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep15389},
volume = {5},
year = {2015}
}

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AB  - People show empathic responses to others’ pain, yet how they choose to apportion pain between themselves and others is not well understood. To address this question, we observed choices to reapportion social allocations of painful stimuli and, for comparison, also elicited equivalent choices with money. On average people sought to equalize allocations of both pain and money, in a manner which indicated that inequality carried an increasing marginal cost. Preferences for pain were more altruistic than for money, with several participants assigning more than half the pain to themselves. Our data indicate that, given concern for others, the fundamental principle of diminishing marginal utility motivates spreading costs across individuals. A model incorporating this assumption outperformed existing models of social utility in explaining the data. By implementing selected allocations for real, we also found that while inequality per se did not influence pain perception, altruistic behavior had an intrinsic analgesic effect for the recipient.
AU  - Story,GW
AU  - Vlaev,I
AU  - Metcalfe,RD
AU  - Crockett,MJ
AU  - Kurth-Nelson,Z
AU  - Darzi,A
AU  - Dolan,RJ
DO  - 10.1038/srep15389
PY  - 2015///
SN  - 2045-2322
TI  - Social redistribution of pain and money
T2  - Scientific Reports
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep15389
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/40891
VL  - 5
ER  -

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