Do we care about the powerless third? An ERP study of the three-person ultimatum game

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MARCH 2012, 2012, Pages 1-17

  Alexopoulos, Johanna ^a,b   Pfabigan, Daniela M ^a   Lamm, Claus ^a   Bauer, Herbert ^a   Fischmeiste, Florian Ph S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Altruism; Egoism; Inequality aversion; MFN; Social preferences; Ultimatum game

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; SOCIAL INTERACTION; WELLBEING;

EID: 84859165630     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00059     Document Type: Article

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