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Model-free decision making is prioritized when learning to avoid harming others
Edited by Fiery Cushman, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, and accepted by Editorial Board Member Michael S. Gazzaniga September 10, 2020 (received for review May 28, 2020)

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- Published in issue November 3, 2020.
- Published first October 14, 2020.
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- Patricia L. Lockwooda,b,c,1,2,
- Miriam C. Klein-Flüggea,b,1,2,
- Ayat Abdurahmana,b, and
- Molly J. Crocketta,d,1
- aDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PH, United Kingdom;
- bWellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom;
- cCentre for Human Brain Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom;
- dDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511
Edited by Fiery Cushman, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, and accepted by Editorial Board Member Michael S. Gazzaniga September 10, 2020 (received for review May 28, 2020)
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- ↵1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: p.l.lockwood{at}bham.ac.uk, miriam.klein-flugge{at}psy.ox.ac.uk, or molly.crockett{at}yale.edu.
↵2P.L.L. and M.C.K.-F. contributed equally to this work.
Author contributions: P.L.L., M.C.K.-F., A.A., and M.J.C. designed research; P.L.L. and A.A. performed research; P.L.L., M.C.K.-F., and M.J.C. analyzed data; and P.L.L., M.C.K.-F., and M.J.C. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no competing interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission. F.C. is a guest editor invited by the Editorial Board.
This article contains supporting information online at https://www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.2010890117/-/DCSupplemental.
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