Moral concepts set decision strategies to abstract values

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Caspers, Svenja ^a   Heim, Stefan ^a,b,c,d   Lucas, Marc G ^e,f   Stephan, Egon ^e   Fischer, Lorenz ^e   Amunts, Katrin ^a,b,c   Zilles, Karl ^a,b,g  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b JARA BRAIN   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAGEN   (Germany)

^g HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTRUISM; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MORALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RESPONSE TIME; SEX DIFFERENCE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; ETHICS; INTELLIGENCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MORALS; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 79953661478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018451     Document Type: Article

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