Thursday, July 31, 2008

To trust or not to trust: How the brain handles betrayal


The development of trust is an essential social tool. Bonds of trust are also extremely fragile, and a single act of betrayal can instantly erase years of trustworthy behavior. Recent research has attempted to elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying trust behavior and investigate how the brain deals with breaches of trust.

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