Friends (and sometimes enemies) with cognitive benefits: What types of social interactions boost executive functioning?

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 253-261

  Ybarra, Oscar ^a   Winkielman, Piotr ^b,c   Yeh, Irene ^a   Burnstein, Eugene ^a,c   Kavanagh, Liam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Competition; Cooperation; Executive function; Mind reading; Socializing

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051716648     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550610386808     Document Type: Article

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