What your brain tells about your reasons
Monday, January 28th, 2008What makes you decide the way you do? – Contrary to the economic view that each individual is only concerned about its own outcome, neuroscientists find evidence for a claim of long standing among psychologists – our relation to others affects our attitude towards an outcome.
On the one hand, this seems amazing. On the other, what does it really tell us if we know that a certain cortical area lights up during deliberation of rewards?