Electrophysiological correlates of processing facial attractiveness and its influence on cooperative behavior

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 517, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 65-70

  Chen, Jie ^a,c   Zhong, Jun ^b   Zhang, Youxue ^c   Li, Peng ^c   Zhang, Aiqun ^b   Tan, Qianbao ^d   Li, Hong ^a  

^a LIAONING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAINAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Huna University of Science and Technology   (China)

Author keywords

Cooperative behavior; ERPs; Facial attractiveness

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COOPERATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BEAUTY; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACE; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REWARD; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861185737     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.02.082     Document Type: Article

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