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When knowledge hurts: humans are willing to receive pain for obtaining non-instrumental information

Humans and other animals value information that reduces uncertainty or leads to pleasurable anticipation, even if it cannot be used to gain tangible rewards or change outcomes. In exchange, they are willing to incur significant costs, sacrifice rewards or invest effort. We investigated whether human...

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Autores principales: Bode, Stefan, Sun, Xiaoyu, Jiwa, Matthew, Cooper, Patrick S., Chong, Trevor T.-J., Egorova-Brumley, Natalia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10336378/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37434523
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1175