We measured brain activity while participants played an interactive game with both friends and strangers and found that people appear to experience greater rewards when friends choose to reciprocate trust compared to friends. This reward signal is sufficiently strong to maintain collaborations even when the friend was flakey and didn’t whole up their end of the collaboration.
Authors
Dominic S. Fareri, Luke J. Chang, Mauricio R. Delgado
Publication
The Journal of Neuroscience
May 27, 2015
May 27, 2015
Funding for this research was generously provided by: