Death on the brain: Effects of mortality salience on the neural correlates of ingroup and outgroup categorization

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 77-87

  Henry, Erika A ^a   Bartholow, Bruce D ^a   Arndt, Jamie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONCEPT FORMATION; DEATH; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SELF CONCEPT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; DEATH; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SELF CONCEPT; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 77954011372     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsp041     Document Type: Article

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