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The Aging Brain Shows Diminished Response To Untrustworthiness, May Explain Why Older Adults Become Fraud Victims More Often
December 4, 2012 by NewsBot
Why are older people especially vulnerable to becoming victims of fraud? A new UCLA study indicates that an important clue may lie in a particular region of the brain that influences the ability to discern who is honest and who is trying to deceive us. Older people, more than younger adults, may fail to interpret an untrustworthy face as potentially dishonest, the study shows...