Mind: Brain's 'Fairness' Spot Found

... it's human nature for us to dislike unequal situations, and we often try to avoid or remedy them. Now, scientists have identified the first evidence of this behavior's neurological underpinnings in the human brain.

The results show that the brain's reward center responds to unequal situations involving money in a way that indicates people prefer a level playing field, and may suggest why we care about the circumstances of others in the first place.

See Brain's 'Fairness' Spot Found by Rachael Rettner, February 24, 2010.