Rationality and emotionality: Serotonin transporter genotype influences reasoning bias

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 404-409

  Stollstorff, Melanie ^a,b   Bean, Stephanie E ^a   Anderson, Lindsay M ^a   Devaney, Joseph M ^c   Vaidya, Chandan J ^a,d  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EMOTION; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LOGIC; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ADULT; ANXIETY; COGNITION; CULTURE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LOGIC; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876829739     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss011     Document Type: Article

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