Exogenous cortisol shifts a motivated bias from fear to anger in spatial working memory for facial expressions

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 14-21

  Putman, Peter ^a   Hermans, Erno J ^a   van Honk, Jack ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aggression; Anger; Cortisol; Emotion; Facial expression; Fear; Motivation; Selective memory

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGER; ANXIETY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PLACEBOS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF-ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33845646370     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2006.09.010     Document Type: Article

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