This time with motivation: The implications of social neuroscience for research on motivated self- and other-perception (and vice versa)

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 38-45

  Beer, Jennifer S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Brain; Emotion; fMRI; Frontal lobe; Motivation; Self; Self enhancement; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857796280     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-011-9259-0     Document Type: Article

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