A selective emotional decision-making bias elicited by facial expressions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Furl, Nicholas ^a   Gallagher, Shannon ^a   Averbeck, Bruno B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TRUST; VOLUNTEER; ANIMAL; FOOD; HUMAN RELATION; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REWARD;

ANIMALIA;

ADULT; ANIMALS; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REWARD; TRUST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858192977     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033461     Document Type: Article

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