Are irrational reactions to unfairness truly emotionally-driven? Dissociated behavioural and emotional responses in the Ultimatum Game task

Cognition

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 89-95

  Civai, Claudia ^a   Corradi Dell'Acqua, Corrado ^a   Gamer, Matthias ^b   Rumiati, Raffaella I ^a,c  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Altruistic punishment; Economical decision making; Frustration; Skin conductance response; Unfairness; Utilitarian rejections

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRUSTRATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; GAME THEORY; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 71549126539     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.09.001     Document Type: Article

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