Personality and emotion: Test of Gray's personality theory by means of an fMRI study

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 462-469

  Reuter, M ^a   Hennig, J ^a   Stark, R ^b   Walter, B ^b   Kirsch, P ^b   Schienle, A ^b   Vaitl, D ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Bender Institute of Neuroimaging   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EROTISM; FEAR; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASOCHISM; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSONALITY THEORY; SADISM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THEORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 2542478072     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.118.3.462     Document Type: Article

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