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SUBMITTER: Farmer H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6970152 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Farmer Harry H Hertz Uri U Hamilton Antonia F de C AFC
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 20191001 10
During our daily lives, we often learn about the similarity of the traits and preferences of others to our own and use that information during our social interactions. However, it is unclear how the brain represents similarity between the self and others. One possible mechanism is to track similarity to oneself regardless of the identity of the other (Similarity account); an alternative is to track each other person in terms of consistency of their choice similarity with respect to the choices t ...[more]