Us versus them: Social identity shapes neural responses to intergroup competition and harm

Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 306-313

  Cikara, Mina ^a   Botvinick, Matthew M ^a   Fiske, Susan T ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; harm; intergroup competition; schadenfreude; ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; AROUSAL; BASAL GANGLION; BASEBALL; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ACHIEVEMENT; AGGRESSION; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; AROUSAL; BASAL GANGLIA; BASEBALL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954506595     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610397667     Document Type: Review

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