The Making of the Machiavellian Brain: A Structural MRI Analysis

Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 205-216

  Verbeke, Willem J M I ^a   Rietdijk, Wim J R ^a   van den Berg, Wouter E ^b   Dietvorst, Roeland C ^b   Worm, Loek ^a   Bagozzi, Richard P ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Machiavellian; Neuroplasticity; Prefrontal cortex; Voxel based morphometry (VBM)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER VOLUME; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MACHIAVELLIANISM; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONMEDICAL OCCUPATIONS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALESPERSON; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

EID: 82155193162     PISSN: 1937321X     EISSN: 2151318X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025802     Document Type: Article

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