Brain activity in fairness consideration during asset distribution: Does the initial ownership play a role?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Wu, Yin ^a,b   Hu, Jie ^b   van Dijk, Eric ^c   Leliveld, Marijke C ^d   Zhou, Xiaolin ^b,e  

^a Southeast University   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAL FRONTAL NEGATIVITY; MODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RECIPIENT; REWARD;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

EID: 84862751164     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039627     Document Type: Article

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