Exploring the motivational brain: Effects of implicit power motivation on brain activation in response to facial expressions of emotion

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 333-343

  Schultheiss, Oliver C ^a,d   Wirth, Michelle M ^b   Waugh, Christian E ^c   Stanton, Steven J ^a   Meier, Elizabeth A ^a   Reuter Lorenz, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain; Dominance; Facial expressions of emotion; fMRI; Implicit motives; Motivation; Personality; Power

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTIVATION; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149136188     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsn030     Document Type: Article

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