Polymorphisms of the OXTR gene explain why sales professionals love to help customers

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Verbeke, Willem ^a   Bagozzi, Richard P ^b   van den Berg, Wouter E ^a   Lemmens, Aurelie ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Genomic imaging; Granger causality; OXTR; Oxytocin; Sales professionals; Social salience; Translational implications

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLELE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUSTOMER; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NAMED GROUPS BY OCCUPATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OXTR GENE; PARS OPERCULARIS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SALES PROFESSIONAL; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

EID: 84888395126     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00171     Document Type: Article

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