Cheating Brains
NPR's Michelle Trudeau reports that humans possess a specialized brain module for detecting individuals who cheat in social exchanges. Evolutionary psychologists now say humans and other social primates have evolved a mechanism to detect when individuals violate the terms of social contracts. For more information, visit The Center for Evolutionary Psychology at The University of California, Santa Barbara.
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