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Neural correlates of trust † ‡ § ¶ Frank Krueger*, Kevin McCabe , Jorge Moll , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte , Roland Zahn , Maren Strenziok*, Armin Heinecke , and Jordan Grafman*,** *Cognitive Neuroscience Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1440; †The Center for the Study of Neuroeconomics, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030; ‡Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience Unit, LABS-D’Or Hospital Network, 2228-080, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; §Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-1148; ¶ Neuroscience and Aphasia Research Unit, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom; and Brain Innovation B.V., Universiteitssingel 40, 6201 BC Maastricht, The Netherlands Communicated by Vernon L. Smith, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, October 25, 2007 (received for review July 12, 2007) Trust is a critical social process that helps us to cooperate with egies that imply different benefits and costs (19), conditional others and is present to some degree in all human interaction. trust or unconditional trust. However, the underlying brain mechanisms of conditional and Conditional trust assumes that one’s partner is self- unconditional trust in social reciprocal exchange are still obscure. interested and estimates the expected value of one’s strategy Here, we used hyperfunctional magnetic resonance imaging, in with respect to the benefits of cooperating, the risk of defec- which two strangers interacted online with one another in a tion, a