Beautiful faces have variable reward value: fMRI and behavioral evidence

Neuron

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 537-551

  Aharon, Itzhak ^a,b   Etcoff, Nancy ^a   Ariely, Dan ^b   Chabris, Christopher F ^a,b,c   O'Connor, Ethan ^b   Breiter, Hans C ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTHETICS; FACE; GENDER; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; STIMULUS;

EID: 0035829649     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(01)00491-3     Document Type: Article

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