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MRI Study Shows We're Wired to Cooperate

Posted by michael on from the game-of-life dept.

ibi writes "The NYT reports that humans apparently have an inborne bias towards cooperation. People who cooperated during standard Prisoner's Dilemma tests registered high levels of activity in the pleasure centers of their brains. This result was the opposite of what the researchers were expecting. (But I bet they were testing students rather than their advisers :-)"

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  1. Nash can fuck off by linzeal · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Just because he is an egotistical asshole doesn't mean the rest of us are.

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