Attribution and Social Cognitive Neuroscience: A new approach for the "online-assessment" of causality ascriptions and their emotional consequences

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-19

  Terbeck, Sylvia ^a   Chesterman, Paul ^b   Fischmeister, Florian Ph S ^a   Leodolter, Ulrich ^a   Bauer, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causality ascription; Manipulation of attribution; Moral emotions; Social cognitive neuroscience

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; ONLINE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 54049091904     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.05.011     Document Type: Article

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