As is the case with other social interactions, financial transactions depend on trust. That fact is behind ingenious experiments that explore the neurobiological underpinnings of human behaviour.
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Damasio, A. Brain trust. Nature 435, 571–572 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/435571a
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