The right and the good: Distributive justice and neural encoding of equity and efficiency

Science

Volumn 320, Issue 5879, 2008, Pages 1092-1095

  Hsu, Ming ^a   Anen, Cédric ^b   Quartz, Steven R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUITY; ETHICS; MORALITY; NEUROLOGY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; DEONTOLOGY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; INTUITION; JUSTICE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; PUTAMEN; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; GIFT GIVING; MIDDLE AGED; MORALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REWARD; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GIFT GIVING; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORALS; PUTAMEN; REWARD; SEPTUM OF BRAIN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 44449094194     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1153651     Document Type: Article

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