Social status determines how we monitor and evaluate our performance

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 304-313

  Boksem, Maarten A S ^a,b,c   Kostermans, Evelien ^c,d   Milivojevic, Branka ^e,f   De cremer, David ^a,c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ERP; FRN; MFN; PCA; Power; Status

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STATISTICS;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN WAVES; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858648076     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsr010     Document Type: Article

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