Social Behavior: A Penny for Your Shocks.

Curr Biol

Department of Psychology & Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, 52 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA. Electronic address:

Published: July 2015

Antisocial behavior is an enormously costly social problem, but its origins are poorly understood. A new study shows that prosocial and antisocial behaviors arise from individual differences in how we represent the value of others' pain relative to our own potential gain, rather than from variability in the capacity for effortful inhibitory control.

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