http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. On a daily basis, our social life places us in situations where we have to decide whether or not to cooperate with others. However, the motivation that encourages us to behave cooperatively is often not clear. Now, new research published by Cell Press in the May 12, 2011, issue of the journal Neuron suggests that anticipation of the feeling of guilt can motivate us to behave unselfishly and reveals a neural mechanism that may underlie this guilt aversion-driven cooperation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-good-dont-bad-neural-mechanisms.html Neuroscience Wed, 11 May 2011 12:39:33 EST news224336335