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Expecting social punishment facilitates control over a decision under uncertainty by recruiting medial prefrontal cortex

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Expecting social punishment facilitates control over a decision under uncertainty by recruiting medial prefrontal cortex

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UK: Oxford University Press

Journal title

Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2020-11, Vol.15 (11), p.1260-1270

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English

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UK: Oxford University Press

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In many decision-making situations, sub-optimal choices are increased by uncertainty. However, when wrong choices could lead to social punishment, such as blame, people might try to improve their performance by minimizing sub-optimal choices, which could be achieved by increasing the subjective cost of errors, thereby globally reducing decision noi...

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Expecting social punishment facilitates control over a decision under uncertainty by recruiting medial prefrontal cortex

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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_7745153

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_7745153

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1749-5016

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1749-5024

DOI

10.1093/scan/nsaa145

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