Table 2. Contribution of empathic concern (EC), instrumental harm (IH), and impartial beneficence (IB) scores on participants’ behavior in study 2.
Tables 2a (placebo session) and 2b (oxytocin session) show the results of three multiple regression analyses. The dependent variables in the three analyses were hyperaltruism (κother – κself), relative harm sensitivity (otherβΔs – selfβΔs), and relative monetary sensitivity (otherβΔm – selfβΔm). Results in bold are further illustrated in Figure 5C and D.
| a. Placebo condition | ||||||||||||
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| Predictors | Hyperaltruism | Relative harm sensitivity | Relative monetary sensitivity | |||||||||
| β | SE | t | P | β | SE | t | P | β | SE | t | P | |
| Intercept | –0.085 | 0.123 | –0.688 | 0.493 | 0.065 | 0.17 | 0.382 | 0.704 | –0.205 | 0.266 | –0.771 | 0.443 |
| EC | 0.005 | 0.004 | 1.162 | 0.248 | 0.006 | 0.006 | 1.086 | 0.281 | –0.004 | 0.009 | –0.444 | 0.658 |
| IH | –0.032 | 0.017 | –1.904 | 0.06 | –0.071 | 0.024 | –3.005 | 0.003 | 0.035 | 0.037 | 0.967 | 0.336 |
| IB | 0.047 | 0.021 | 2.2 | 0.031 | 0.029 | 0.029 | 1 | 0.32 | 0.086 | 0.046 | 1.887 | 0.063 |
| Context (gain vs. loss) | –0.034 | 0.174 | –0.197 | 0.844 | –0.34 | 0.241 | –1.412 | 0.162 | 0.323 | 0.375 | 0.862 | 0.391 |
| EC × context | 0.002 | 0.006 | 0.332 | 0.74 | 0.005 | 0.008 | 0.601 | 0.549 | 0.003 | 0.012 | 0.264 | 0.792 |
| IH × context | 0.018 | 0.024 | 0.737 | 0.463 | 0.077 | 0.033 | 2.297 | 0.024 | –0.062 | 0.052 | –1.187 | 0.238 |
| IB × context | –0.051 | 0.03 | –1.711 | 0.091 | –0.047 | 0.042 | –1.14 | 0.257 | –0.084 | 0.065 | –1.295 | 0.199 |
| b. Oxytocin condition | ||||||||||||
| Intercept | 0.138 | 0.125 | 1.1 | 0.275 | 0.056 | 0.109 | 0.511 | 0.611 | 0.049 | 0.253 | 0.195 | 0.846 |
| EC | 0.01 | 0.004 | 2.397 | 0.019 | 0.006 | 0.004 | 1.675 | 0.098 | 0.001 | 0.009 | 0.157 | 0.876 |
| IH | –0.047 | 0.017 | –2.721 | 0.008 | –0.037 | 0.015 | –2.458 | 0.016 | 0.053 | 0.035 | 1.541 | 0.126 |
| IB | –0.034 | 0.019 | –1.813 | 0.073 | –0.009 | 0.016 | –0.582 | 0.562 | –0.041 | 0.038 | –1.091 | 0.279 |
| Context (gain vs. loss) | –0.071 | 0.177 | –0.401 | 0.69 | 0.092 | 0.154 | 0.596 | 0.553 | –0.372 | 0.358 | –1.04 | 0.301 |
| EC × context | 0.002 | 0.006 | 0.385 | 0.701 | –0.002 | 0.005 | –0.336 | 0.737 | 0.012 | 0.012 | 0.985 | 0.327 |
| IH × context | 0.008 | 0.024 | 0.323 | 0.747 | –0.006 | 0.021 | –0.272 | 0.786 | –0.045 | 0.049 | –0.918 | 0.361 |
| IB × context | –0.01 | 0.026 | –0.384 | 0.702 | –0.012 | 0.023 | –0.526 | 0.6 | 0.024 | 0.053 | 0.457 | 0.649 |