The slippery slope of dishonesty

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 29 Nov 2016Embargo end date: 29 May 2017 Switzerland, Netherlands English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature Neuroscience, volume 19, pages 1,543-1,544 (issn: 1097-6256, eissn: 1546-1726,

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Authors: Engelmann, Jan B; Fehr, Ernst;

doi: 10.1038/nn.4441 , 10.5167/uzh-137326

pmid: 27898084

handle: 11245.1/4148564c-487a-47f4-9b5b-77a1d90c6ca3

The slippery slope of dishonesty

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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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social behaviour, 330, 10007 Department of Economics, 2800 General Neuroscience, Amygdala, 330 Economics

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