{"id":231074,"date":"2026-02-11T01:33:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/this-brain-experiment-made-people-choose-others-over-themselves"},"modified":"2026-02-11T01:33:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:33:26","slug":"this-brain-experiment-made-people-choose-others-over-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/this-brain-experiment-made-people-choose-others-over-themselves","title":{"rendered":"This Brain Experiment Made People Choose Others Over Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-brain-experiment-made-people-choose-others-over-themselves2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists found that synchronizing activity between two brain regions made people more generous.<\/p>\n<p>A new study suggests that synchronizing activity in specific parts of the brain can make people more likely to act generously. Research published today (February 10) in the open-access journal PLOS Biology reports that stimulating two brain regions in a coordinated way increased altruistic behavior. The study was led by Jie Hu of East China Normal University in China, working with colleagues from the University of Zurich in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>Why some people are more altruistic than others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists found that synchronizing activity between two brain regions made people more generous. A new study suggests that synchronizing activity in specific parts of the brain can make people more likely to act generously. Research published today (February 10) in the open-access journal PLOS Biology reports that stimulating two brain regions in a coordinated way [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}