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NEUROSCIENCE The price of success ABSTRACT How much should you pay for a better chance at success? For this project, we approached individuals in a city park and had them play a novel lottery using a small set of black and white marbles in an...
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New Research from NYU, Princeton and UCL Researchers Published in PLoS Computational Biology February 16, 2017 The decisions we make are only as good as the information we base those decisions off of, but a lot of that information comes to us via...
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NEUROSCIENCE Restoring Justice: Punishing on behalf of another, but not for oneself ABSTRACT Classic social psychology and experimental economic studies argue that punishment is the ubiquitous response to violations of fairness norms. We...
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