By Hayley M. Dorfman and Joshua W. Buckholtz | Current Biology | July 20, 2015
Summary:
Antisocial behavior is an enormously costly social problem, but its origins are poorly understood. A new study shows that prosocial and antisocial behaviors arise from individual differences in how we represent the value of others’ pain relative to our own potential gain, rather than from variability in the capacity for effortful inhibitory control.
