Disrupting the prefrontal cortex diminishes the human ability to build a good reputation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 49, 2009, Pages 20895-20899

  Knoch, Daria ^a   Schneider, Frédéric ^b   Schunk, Daniel ^b   Hohmanna, Martin ^a   Fehr, Ernst ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Collegium Helveticum   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Decision making; Social interaction; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONTROL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL LIFE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

HUMANS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRUST;

EID: 73949119089     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0911619106     Document Type: Article

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