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Punishment insensitivity in humans is due to failures in instrumental contingency learning
2021-04-27
Abstract excerpt
Punishment maximises the probability of our individual survival by reducing behaviours that cause us harm, and also sustains trust and fairness in groups essential for social cohesion. However, some individuals are more sensitive to punishment than others and these differences in punishment sensitivity have been linked to a variety of decision-making deficits and psychopathologies. The mechanisms for why individua...
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- Literature Corpus work
- a6ddd1a6-4359-5cf0-a6dd-07dae9307cc5
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.04.23.441174
