Paper	Task Description for Relevant Conditions	Type of Reward	Contrast	Source of Coordinates
Bellebaum, C., Jokisch, D., Gizewski, E., Forsting, M., & Daum, I. (2012). The neural coding of expected and unexpected monetary performance outcomes: Dissociations between active and observational learning. Behavioural Brain Research, 227(1), 241–251.	Participants had to learn by observing the performance and outcomes of another subject. For each trial, they observed another subject choose between two stimuli and receive monetary feedback, such as monetary reward (20 cents) or non-reward (neither reward nor punishment).	Money	Observational feedback learning task: Reward outcome > Non-reward outcome	Personal correspondence
Braams, B. R., Güroğlu, B., de Water, E., Meuwese, R., Koolschijn, P. C., Peper, J. S., & Crone, E. A. (2013). Reward- related neural responses are dependent on the beneficiary. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, nst077.	Participants could win money for their best friend in a gambling task.	Money	Friend gain > Fixation	Personal correspondence
Burke, C. J., Tobler, P. N., Baddeley, M., & Schultz, W. (2010). Neural mechanisms of observational learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(32), 14431–14436.	Participants could learn by observing the performance and outcomes of another subject. During the gain sessions, they observed another subject choose between two stimuli and receive a reward (10 points) or non-reward (0 points).	Points	Full observational learning during gain session: 10-point gain > 0-point gain	Personal correspondence
Chester, D. S., Powell, C. A., Smith, R. H., Joseph, J. E., Kedia, G., Combs, D. J., & DeWall, C. N. (2013). Justice for the average Joe: The role of envy and the mentalizing network in the deservingness of others’ misfortunes. Social Neuroscience, 8(6), 640–649.	Participants observed that non-enviable targets had been accepted into a prestigious student program (i.e., good fortune).	Acceptance into student program	Good fortune for low envy targets > Baseline	Personal correspondence
Hamilton, J. P., Chen, M. C., Waugh, C. E., Joormann, J., & Gotlib, I. H. (2014). Distinctive and common neural underpinnings of major depression, social anxiety, and their comorbidity. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, nsu084.	Participants passively listened to positive affective statements (praise) directed at another person.	Positive social feedback	Healthy controls only: Other positive > Baseline	Personal correspondence
Hare, T. A., Camerer, C. F., Knoepfle, D. T., & Rangel, A. (2010). Value computations in ventral medial prefrontal cortex during charitable decision making incorporate input from regions involved in social cognition. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(2), 583–590. doi: 30/2/583 [pii] 0.1523/JNEUROSCI.4089-09.2010	Participants made donations to different charities. In forced donation trials subjects were instructed how much they had to donate in that trial ($0 – $100 in $5 increments) and had to move a slider to the mandated amount (i.e. forced response).	Money	For all amounts except $0: Forced response > Fixation	Personal correspondence
Hooker, C. I., Verosky, S. C., Miyakawa, A., Knight, R. T., & D’Esposito, M. (2008). The influence of personality on neural mechanisms of observational fear and reward learning. Neuropsychologia, 46(11), 2709–2724.	Participants learned object-emotion associations by observing whether a woman reacted with a happy or neutral expression to a neutral object.	Object	Learn happy > Learn neutral	Table 6
Izuma, K., Saito, D. N., & Sadato, N. (2008). Processing of social and monetary rewards in the human striatum. Neuron, 58(2), 284–294.	Participants saw blocks of all positive words showing what others thought of another person (i.e. high social reputation) or saw no feedback about the other person (i.e. no social reputation).	Positive social feedback	Other high social reputation > Other no social reputation	Personal correspondence
Jabbi, M., Swart, M., & Keysers, C. (2007). Empathy for positive and negative emotions in the gustatory cortex. Neuroimage, 34(4), 1744–1753.	Participants saw videos of people drinking pleasant and neutral liquids.	Juice	Pleasant > Neutral	Personal correspondence
Jung, D., Sul, S., & Kim, H. (2013). Dissociable neural processes underlying risky decisions for self versus other. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 7.	Participants were asked to perform a gambling task on behalf of another person (decision-for-other condition). These decisions sometimes resulted in a person winning either 10 points or 90 points. Points were converted to money.	Points/Money	Other Win > Fixation	Personal correspondence
Kätsyri, J., Hari, R., Ravaja, N., & Nummenmaa, L. (2013). Just watching the game ain’t enough: striatal fMRI reward responses to successes and failures in a video game during active and vicarious playing. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7.	Participants watched a pre-recorded gameplay video (vicarious playing) and observed another player’s successes (wins) and failures (losses).	Video game wins	Vicarious play: Win > Loss	Personal correspondence
Korn, C. W., Prehn, K., Park, S. Q., Walter, H., & Heekeren, H. R. (2012). Positively biased processing of self-relevant social feedback. The Journal of Neuroscience, 32(47), 16832–16844.	Participants observed others receive desirable feedback about their personality traits.	Positive social feedback	Other desirable feedback > Fixation	Personal correspondence
Meffert, H., Gazzola, V., den Boer, J. A., Bartels, A. A., & Keysers, C. (2013). Reduced spontaneous but relatively normal deliberate vicarious representations in psychopathy. Brain, 136(8), 2550–2562.	Participants watched videos of others’ hands receiving loving or neutral touch.	Loving touch	Healthy controls only: Observe loving touch > Observe neutral touch	Personal correspondence
Meshi, D., Morawetz, C., & Heekeren, H. R. (2013). Nucleus accumbens response to gains in reputation for the self relative to gains for others predicts social media use. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7.	Participants observed others receive positive feedback about their personality traits or no feedback.	Positive social feedback	Other high positive feedback > Other no feedback	Personal correspondence
Molenberghs, P., Bosworth, R., Nott, Z., Louis, W. R., Smith, J. R., Amiot, C. E., Decety, J. (2014). The influence of group membership and individual differences in psychopathy and perspective taking on neural responses when punishing and rewarding others. Human Brain Mapping.	Participants gave monetary rewards or nothing (neutral) to in-group members during a trivia game.	Money	Reward in-group > Neutral in-group	Personal correspondence
Morelli, S. A., Rameson, L. T., & Lieberman, M. D. (2014). The neural components of empathy: Predicting daily prosocial behavior. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9(1), 39–47. doi: 10.1093/scan/nss088	Participants were asked to empathize with photos of others’ happy events (e.g., getting engaged) and to view others’ neutral events (e.g., ironing).	Positive emotional events	Happy empathize > Neutral	Table 1
Morrison, I., Björnsdotter, M., & Olausson, H. (2011). Vicarious responses to social touch in posterior insular cortex are tuned to pleasant caressing speeds. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(26), 9554–9562. Morrison	Participants observed brush strokes on another person’s arm at two different speeds: 3 cm/s (pleasant) and 30 cm/s (neutral).	Pleasant touch	Study 1: Seen 3 > Seen 30	Table 1
Morrison, I., Björnsdotter, M., & Olausson, H. (2011). Vicarious responses to social touch in posterior insular cortex are tuned to pleasant caressing speeds. The Journal of Neuroscience, 31(26), 9554–9562.	Participants observed brush strokes on another person’s arm at two different speeds: 3 cm/s (pleasant) and 30 cm/s (neutral).	Pleasant touch	Study 2: Seen 3 > Seen 30	Table 2
Perry, D., Hendler, T., & Shamay-Tsoory, S. G. (2012). Can we share the joy of others? Empathic neural responses to distress vs joy. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 7(8), 909–916.	Participants read sentences depicting everyday positive emotional events occurring to a fictional character.	Positive emotional events	Other positive > Fixation	Personal correspondence
Spunt, R. P., & Lieberman, M. D. (2012). An integrative model of the neural systems supporting the comprehension of observed emotional behavior. Neuroimage, 59(3), 3050–3059. doi: S1053-8119(11)01166-9 [pii] 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.10.005	Participants watched video clips of others’ experiencing positive emotions and were asked to imagine why they felt that way. They also did a shape matching task which served as a neutral condition.	Positive emotional events	Positive Why task > Shape matching	Personal correspondence
Telzer, E. H., Masten, C. L., Berkman, E. T., Lieberman, M. D., & Fuligni, A. J. (2010). Gaining while giving: An fMRI study of the rewards of family assistance among White and Latino youth. Social Neuroscience, 5(5–6), 508–518.”	Participants choose whether to accept or reject a payment option that affected their own and their family’s endowment. One type of payment included a noncostly-donation to the family (e.g., YOU –$0.00 FAM +$3.00).	Money	Noncostly donation > Fixation	Personal correspondence
Telzer, E. H., Fuligni, A. J., Lieberman, M. D., & Galván, A. (2013). Ventral striatum activation to prosocial rewards predicts longitudinal declines in adolescent risk taking. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 3, 45–52.	Paritcipants choose whether to accept or reject a payment option that affected their own and their family’s endowment. One type of payment included a noncostly-donation to the family (e.g., YOU –$0.00 FAM +$3.00). For the control condition, YOU and FAM were presented without a financial gain or loss.	Money	Noncostly donation > Control	Personal correspondence
Tricomi, E., Rangel, A., Camerer, C. F., & O’Doherty, J. P. (2010). Neural evidence for inequality-averse social preferences. Nature, 463(7284), 1089–1091.	Inequality was created by recruiting pairs of subjects and giving one of them a large monetary endowment (i.e. high-pay player). This high-pay player then evaluated monetary transfers from the experimenter to the other participant (i.e. low-pay player).	Money	High-pay player: Payments to low-pay player > Control	Personal correspondence
Varnum, M. E., Shi, Z., Chen, A., Qiu, J., & Han, S. (2014). When “Your” reward is the same as “My” reward: Self-construal priming shifts neural responses to own vs. friends’ rewards. Neuro Image, 87, 164–169.	Experimenters manipulated participants’ self-construal (independent vs. interdependent). Participants then played a game in which they could win money for a friend during a gambling game.	Money	Interdependent prime for main task: Friend win > Neutral	Personal correspondence
Wicker, B., Keysers, C., Plailly, J., Royet, J., Gallese, V., & Rizzolatti, G. (2003). Both of us disgusted in My Insula: The common neural basis of seeing and feeling disgust. Neuron, 40(3), 655–664.	Participants watch videos of other people smelling pleasant odors.	Pleasant odors	Observation of pleasure > Neutral	Personal correspondence