The neuroscience of trust

By Kollen Post. Science, 2019

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Decision-Making Negative emotional states have a powerful effect on decision-making. In an effort to map the interaction of the two within the human brain, Engelmann et al. set up 41 participants in an investment simulation. The participants had to decide how much money they would give to anonymous human “trustees” versus “banks”—computers programmed for the task. These two scenarios were further subdivided by pain: Subjects faced strong electric shocks in some blocks and mild electric stimuli in others. The participants gave less money, in general, when faced with the threat of shock. Furthermore, activity in areas of the brain associated with trust and empathy was suppressed in trustee-dependent decisions during threat of shock. Sci. Adv. 10.1126/sciadv.aau3413 (2019).

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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