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Brain blast squelches the desire to punish

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Frontal cortex referees the conflict between being selfish and fair.

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  1. KnochD., Pascual-LeoneA., MeyerK., TreyerV.& TreyerV. Science, doi:10.1126/science.1129156 (2006).

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