Inhibitory control and empathy-related personality traits: Sex-linked associations

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 364-368

  Hansen, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attention; Cooperativeness; Empathy; Gender; Inhibitory control; SART; Sex; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALITY; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL COGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPERAMENT; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY; SELF REPORT; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 79957932795     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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