Emotion regulation reduces loss aversion and decreases amygdala responses to losses

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 341-350

  Sokol Hessner, Peter ^a   Camerer, Colin F ^a   Phelps, Elizabeth A ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Emotion; Emotion regulation; Loss aversion; Reappraisal

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; OXYGEN; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875265363     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss002     Document Type: Article

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