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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. Female only study.... by jsimon12 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Uh does this really say much about mens brains? The study was entirely female, other studies have shown that mens and womans brains are very differnt.