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Scientists from Oxford University UCL have identified, our brain that helps us learn to be good to other people.

Prosocial behaviours are social behaviors that benefit other people. They are a fundamental aspect of human interactions, essential for social bonding and cohesion, but very little is currently known about how and why people do things to help others.

Empathy as a critical motivator of prosocial behaviours.  People who rated themselves as having higher levels of empathy learned to benefit others faster than those who reported having lower levels of empathy.

The scientists used a model to check how people learn to maximize good outcomes for themselves and applied this model to understand how people learn to help others. While being scanned in a MRI machine, participants had to work out which symbols were more likely to give them, or someone else.

They found, when people learn to make choices that benefit other people, they do not learn it quite as fast as they learn to benefit themselves. However, they also identified a particular brain area involved in learning to get the best result for other people.

Subgenual anterior cingulate cortex was the only part of the brain that was activated when learning to help other people.

However, this region was not equally active in every person. People who themselves as having higher levels of empathy learnt to benefit others faster than those who reported having lower levels of empathy. They also showed increased signaling in their subgenual anterior cingulate cortex when benefitting others.