The Neuroscience of Fairness

Sally Kohn: I was interested in the stuff you could see, not see that you could observe inhuman behavior. She says she kept running into the same story over and over from about a dozen different scientists. The network that lights up when you are giving someone money or experiencing physical pleasure is lighting up when they just feel treated fairly in an ultimatum game," said Kohn. "It set off a three year journey to try to scratch an itch that was just really bugging me"