Anatomical correlates of self-handicapping tendency

Cortex

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1148-1154

  Takeuchi, Hikaru ^a   Taki, Yasuyuki ^a   Nouchi, Rui ^a   Hashizume, Hiroshi ^a   Sekiguchi, Atsushi ^a   Kotozaki, Yuka ^a   Nakagawa, Seishu ^a   Miyauchi, Carlos M ^a   Sassa, Yuko ^a   Kawashima, Ryuta ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Regional gray matter volume; Self handicapping; Subgenual cingulate gyrus; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN SIZE; CINGULATE GYRUS; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF ESTEEM; SELF HANDICAPPING TENDENCY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875813648     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.01.014     Document Type: Article

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