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Research Articles

Group environment modulates how third parties assess unfairly shared losses and unfairly shared gains: neural signatures from ERPs and EEG oscillations

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Pages 840-854 | Received 29 Dec 2022, Accepted 09 Dec 2023, Published online: 11 Feb 2024

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