Social attachment and aversion in human moral cognition

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 456-465

  Moll, Jorge ^a   Schulkin, Jay ^b  

^a LABS D'Or Hospital Network   (Brazil)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti social; Attachment; Cognition; Disgust; Emotion; Limbic; Moral; Prefrontal cortex; Social

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; SEROTONIN;

AGGRESSION; ALTRUISM; ANGER; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EMPATHY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GUILT; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; LOVE; MORALITY; MOTIVATION; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHAME; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

BRAIN; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; HORMONES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MORALS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 59249104562     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2008.12.001     Document Type: Review

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