The dark side of social encounters: Prospects for a neuroscience of human evil

Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 174-180

  Reimann, Martin ^a   Zimbardo, Philip G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective neuroscience; Aggression; Cognitive; Dehumanization; Deindividuation; Human evil; Social

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; DEHUMANIZATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; NEUROSCIENCE; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 80051919765     PISSN: 1937321X     EISSN: 2151318X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024654     Document Type: Article

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