Social distance modulates recipient's fairness consideration in the dictator game: An ERP study

Biological Psychology

Volumn 88, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 253-262

  Wu, Yin ^a   Leliveld, Marijke C ^b   Zhou, Xiaolin ^c,d  

^a Southeast University   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

Dictator game; ERP; Fairness consideration; Interpersonal relationship; MFN; P300; Social distance; Social norms

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTATOR GAME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; FEMALE; FRIENDS; FRONTAL LOBE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; REWARD; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL VALUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053117711     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.08.009     Document Type: Article

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