What does the brain tell us about trust and distrust? evidence from a functional neuroimaging study

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 34, Issue SPEC. ISSUE 2, 2010, Pages 373-396

  Dimoka, Angelika ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive neuroscience; Distrust; FMRI; Functional neuroimaging; NeurolS; Price premiums; Trust

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; NEUROLOGY;

COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCES; DISTRUST; FMRI; NEUROLS; PRICE PREMIUMS; TRUST; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; NEUROIS;

FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; BRAIN;

EID: 77956856870     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/20721433     Document Type: Article

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