Diminishing reciprocal fairness by disrupting the right prefrontal cortex

Science

Volumn 314, Issue 5800, 2006, Pages 829-832

  Knoch, Daria ^a,b,c   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^d   Meyer, Kaspar ^a   Treyer, Valerie ^e   Fehr, Ernst ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Collegium Helveticum   (Switzerland)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; TISSUE;

MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

HUMAN ACTIVITY; MAGNETIC FIELD;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MORALITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33750700845     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1129156     Document Type: Article

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