Women are more generous than men because of their brain activity

A new study shows that women are more generous and prefer to share than men because they find it worth doing. We have another reason to honor half the world!

Previous behavioral research shows that women tend to engage in social behavior more than men, and are more likely to do charity.

Women are more sensitive to sharing, men are more sensitive to being selfish.

The economists of the Ministry of Economy want to try and explain the reason for this. In the new study, published on Nature Human Behavior, the team observed the areas of the brain that act when making sharing decisions.

In a series of experiments, male and female participants were asked to imagine 100 people from one (their best friend) to 100 (any stranger on the street). They have to choose whether to share money with people at social relations 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 or keep themselves.

In one trial of the study, participants were also given a drug called Amisulpride, inhibiting the reward system in the brain. Researchers believe that this drug will reduce the value that the researcher thinks about reward, whether selfish or social (sharing).

An area in the center of the brain called the striatum works whenever people make decisions. In a trial that did not use Amisulpride, the striatum was more active in women 's brains when they shared than when they kept it to themselves. The opposite happens in male subjects. In other words, women's reward systems are more sensitive to sharing, and men are more sensitive to being selfish.

In the drug experiment, the sharing behavior in women and selfishness in men decreased.

Women tend to participate in more social activities and do more charity.

Alexander Soutscheck, a psychologist from Zurich University and the lead author of the study, told Business Insider: 'We have been hoping to find an impact on women, because of onion studies. en we know that women are more socially favorable than men . We think that the impact in men may be smaller than in women, but do not think the effect is the opposite. '

Although research has shown that there are differences between men and women at biological levels, Soutschek said they have not drawn any conclusions about the reasons for these differences.

He said: 'It would be wrong to believe that differences in brain function are innate or evolutionary. In contrast, the dopamine system is very important for learning, and this is in line with the view that observed differences are probably the product of sex score in western societies. However, as I said, this is only the best explanation for us, we cannot rule out the evolutionary hypothesis. '