A round-up of recent papers on natural rationality

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• The neuroscience of trust: amygdala activity increases as perceived trustworthiness decreases (JOCN)
• The social appropriateness of jokes is encoded through VMPFC and hippocampus interaction (JOCN)
  
• Delusional beliefs may be causes by a malfunctioning of prediction-error-related signal in rPFC (Brain)
  
• Primatologist Frans de Waal criticised the spindoctoring of science for political purposes (data about chimpanzee and bononbos) (eSekeptic)
  
• The neural basis of risky decision-making in a blackjack task. (Neuroreport)
• Morality and psychopathy correspond to well- and mal-functioning of amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex interaction (Trends in cognitive science)