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Nature 435, 571-572 (2 June 2005) | doi:10.1038/435571a; Published online 1 June 2005
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- Medical College of Wisconsin
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Assistant or Associate Professor of Neurobiology
- Medical College of Georgia
- Augusta, GA United States
Human behaviour: Brain trust
Antonio Damasio1
Abstract
As is the case with other social interactions, financial transactions depend on trust. That fact is behind ingenious experiments that explore the neurobiological underpinnings of human behaviour.
Michael Kosfeld and his colleagues got students in Zurich to play a serious game. The game involved real monetary exchanges between two people playing the anonymous roles of 'investor' and 'trustee'; beforehand, each subject had received either the neuropeptide oxytocin or an inert placebo, via nasal spray.
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Antonio Damasio is in the Department of Neurology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, Iowa
52242, USA.
Email: antonio-damasio@uiowa.edu
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