The slippery slope of dishonesty
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| Publication date |
12-2016
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| Journal |
Nature Neuroscience
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| Volume | Issue number |
19 | 12
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| Pages (from-to) |
1543-1544
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| Organisations |
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Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
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Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB)
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| Abstract |
Recent experiments suggest that dishonesty can escalate from small levels to ever-larger ones along a 'slippery slope'. Activity in bilateral amygdala tracks this gradual adaptation to repeated acts of self-serving dishonesty.
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| Document type |
Article
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| Language |
English
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| Published at |
https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.4441
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