Triangulating the Bases of Guilt Aversion

Triangulating the Bases of Guilt Aversion - Why do we cooperate when it's in our best interest to be selfish? Alan Sanfey and colleagues explore whether the desire to avoid feeling guilty is a fundamental motivator of cooperative behavior. They describe a network of brain regions that may mediate human cooperation in the face of temptation. Read more in Chang et al., Neuron 70(3).