Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Site Tools

  • AAAS
  • Subscribe
  • Feedback

Site Search

Search Advanced

Science 2 May 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5876, pp. 614 - 615
DOI: 10.1126/science.1157089
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Books

NEUROSCIENCE:
On Deciding How to Do unto Others

Prashanth Ak

The Neuroscience of Fair Play
Why We (Usually) Follow the Golden Rule
by Donald W. Pfaff
Dana Press, New York, 2007. 248 pp. $20.95. ISBN 9781932594270.
Rejecting the idea of signaling circuits devoted to ethics, the author discusses neural and genetic mechanisms that may underlie the behavior of treating others as one wishes to be treated
The reviewer is at the Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA. E-mail: prashanth{at}ias.edu

Read the Full Text

ADVERTISEMENT
Click Me!

ADVERTISEMENT
Click Me!

To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)