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SUBMITTER: Speer SPH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7430999 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Speer Sebastian P H SPH Smidts Ale A Boksem Maarten A S MAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200803 32
Every day, we are faced with the conflict between the temptation to cheat for financial gains and maintaining a positive image of ourselves as being a "good person." While it has been proposed that cognitive control is needed to mediate this conflict between reward and our moral self-image, the exact role of cognitive control in (dis)honesty remains elusive. Here we identify this role, by investigating the neural mechanism underlying cheating. We developed a task which allows for inconspicuously ...[more]