Summary
People’s preferences for income distribution fundamentally affect their behavior and contribute to shaping important social and political institutions. The study of such preferences has become a major topic in behavioral research in social psychology and economics. There is no direct neuronal evidence of how the brain responds to income distributions when people have made different contributions in terms of work effort.
The present paper reports from, to our knowledge, the first neuroimaging study designed to examine how the brain responds to the distribution of income in such situations.
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