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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. Patrick McGoohan by heliocentric · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    standard Prisoner's Dilemma tests...

    I am not a number, I am a free man!

    I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, debriefed or numbered!

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    Wheeeee