Red Brain, Blue Brain: Evaluative Processes Differ in Democrats and Republicans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Schreiber, Darren ^a,b   Fonzo, Greg ^c   Simmons, Alan N ^d,e   Dawes, Christopher T ^f   Flagan, Taru ^d   Fowler, James H ^d   Paulus, Martin P ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROIMAGING; POLITICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIALIZATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ATTITUDE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POLITICS; RISK-TAKING;

EID: 84873925915     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052970     Document Type: Article

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