New research shows we prefer to help rather than punish when under stress.
You’ve written about fairness before — how does this differ?
Yes, I have written a few times on this. Fairness is important in society. In this post I looked at a circuit for social comparisons:
And this one looked at fairness vs. equity — showing we tend to prefer equity:
But this research I am reporting on wanted to investigate how acute stress can impact fairness decision making.
Ok, explain more
This series of experiments by Huagen Wang et al. combined decision making when viewing unfairness combined with acute stress and brain scanning also.