Admiration for virtue: Neuroscientific perspectives on a motivating emotion

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 110-115

  Immordino Yang, Mary Helen ^a   Sylvan, Lesley ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drives; Emotion; Motivation; Neuroscience; Unconscious non conscious processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953686840     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2010.03.003     Document Type: Article

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