{"id":25876,"date":"2019-04-18T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T06:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/?p=25876"},"modified":"2025-10-21T08:41:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:41:18","slug":"ncomms15964-pdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/2019\/04\/18\/ncomms15964-pdf\/","title":{"rendered":"A Neural Link between Generosity and Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Nature.com, July 11, 2017.<\/strong>\u00a0 Generous behaviour is known to increase happiness, which could thereby motivate generosity. In this study, we use functional magnetic resonance imaging and a public pledge for future generosity to investigate the brain mechanisms that link generous behaviour with increases in happiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/ncomms15964.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Read full story (opens in a new tab)\">Read full story<\/a><\/p>\n<script>;<\/script><script>;<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature.com, July 11, 2017.\u00a0 Generous behaviour is known to increase happiness, which could thereby motivate generosity. In this study, we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-happiness-and-philanthropy"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25876"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123146,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25876\/revisions\/123146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}