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Science 2 May 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5876, pp. 614 - 615
DOI: 10.1126/science.1157089

Books

NEUROSCIENCE:
On Deciding How to Do unto Others

Prashanth Ak


The Neuroscience of Fair Play
Why We (Usually) Follow the Golden Rule
by Donald W. Pfaff
Dana Press, New York, 2007. 248 pp. $20.95. ISBN 9781932594270.
Rejecting the idea of signaling circuits devoted to ethics, the author discusses neural and genetic mechanisms that may underlie the behavior of treating others as one wishes to be treated
The reviewer is at the Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA. E-mail: prashanth{at}ias.edu

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