The negative consequences of threat: A functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of the neural mechanisms underlying women's underperformance in math: Research article

Psychological Science

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 168-175

  Krendl, Anne C ^a,c   Richeson, Jennifer A ^b   Kelley, William M ^a   Heatherton, Todd F ^a  

^a Dartmouth College

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; FEAR; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; AFFECT; FEAR; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME;

EID: 38949210194     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02063.x     Document Type: Article

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