A recent study found people suffering from pain exhibited a greater self-centered perspective aimed at maximizing self-gain, according to the study published in PLoSONE.
Researchers in Rome used lasers to stimulate pain while participants played an economic game that involves making and accepting offers. Participants in pain offered less fair offers and responders in pain increased their acceptance rate regardless of the offer's fairness.
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Researchers in Rome used lasers to stimulate pain while participants played an economic game that involves making and accepting offers. Participants in pain offered less fair offers and responders in pain increased their acceptance rate regardless of the offer's fairness.
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