Betrayal is worse than loss during cooperation
Rumeng Tang, Jingbin Tan, Yi Gao, Lin Chen, Jing Gan, Xiaowei Ding, Dingguo Gao
The paper investigates betrayal and loss aversion in cooperation, finding betrayal aversion more strongly reduces cooperation than loss aversion, supported by ERP data.
bioRxiv · Mar 6, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience