Specialization in Relational Reasoning: The Efficiency, Accuracy, and Neural Substrates of Social versus Nonsocial Inferences

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 318-326

  Mason, Malia F ^a   Magee, Joe C ^b   Kuwabara, Ko ^a   Nind, Louise ^c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

reasoning; social cognition; social inferences; social network; social neuroscience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866992297     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550610366166     Document Type: Article

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