Knowing when to trust others: An ERP study of decision making after receiving information from unknown people

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-34

  Boudreau, Cheryl ^a,b   Mccubbins, Mathew D ^b,c   Coulson, Seana ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Game theory; P300; Social cognition; Social information transmission; Trust

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRUST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CONFLICT OF INTEREST; DECEPTION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TRUST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63349101323     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsn034     Document Type: Article

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