Neural evidence for individual and cultural variability in the social comparison effect

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 41, 2013, Pages 16200-16208

  Kang, Pyungwon ^a   Lee, Yongsil ^a   Choi, Incheol ^b   Kim, Hackjin ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CORPUS STRIATUM; CULTURAL BIAS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL COMPARISON; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 84885115566     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5084-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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