A new event-related fMRI study suggests that decisions about trustworthiness involve structures that process emotions, and raises intriguing questions about cues used for such judgments.
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Adolphs, R. Trust in the brain. Nat Neurosci 5, 192–193 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0302-192
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