Can Sophie's Choice Be Adequately Captured by Cold Computation of Minimizing Losses? An fMRI Study of Vital Loss Decisions

• Qi Li,

  Affiliations Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Shaozheng Qin,

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

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• Li-Lin Rao,

  Affiliations Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Wencai Zhang,

  Affiliation Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Xiaoping Ying,

  Affiliation Center for Social Psychology Studies, Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Science, Beijing, China

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• Xiuyan Guo,

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

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• Chunyan Guo,

  Affiliation Learning & Cognition Lab, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China

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• Jinghong Ding,

  Affiliation Learning & Cognition Lab, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China

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• Shu Li ,

  * E-mail: luoj@psych.ac.cn (JL); lishu@psych.ac.cn (SL)

  Affiliation Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Jing Luo

  * E-mail: luoj@psych.ac.cn (JL); lishu@psych.ac.cn (SL)

  Affiliations Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Learning & Cognition Lab, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China

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