The study establishes a specific brain region, the right lateral prefrontal cortex (rLPFC), as a crucial nerve center for fairness, researchers say. It "provides a full leap forward in understanding where and how in the brain we attend to possible punishments as we contemplate our next moves," says Owen D. Jones of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, an expert in law and neuroscience.
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"We're a species who rose to prominence because of our ultrasociality," Jones agrees. "That would have been flatly unachievable, were it not for evolved brain mechanisms enabling us to create, attend to, and enforce social norms."
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