Interesting article on the pleasure of
revenge. I post it mainly because I was amused by the sections in bold:
Quote:
"Using positron emission tomography (PET) scans, the researchers saw that as players came to a decision to punish greedy partners, the striatum, a part of the brain involved in processing rewards, was activated.
That part of the brain - located a short distance behind the bridge of the nose - is involved in reward processing. It is activated, for example, when a person is in love and sees a photograph of his beloved, when someone thinks he will soon be paid money, or when someone takes cocaine*, said Dr. Ernst Fehr, an economist and co-author of the study.
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* Aka the hookers 'n blow effect.
