Dopaminergic stimulation increases selfish behavior in the absence of punishment threat

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 231, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 135-141

  Pedroni, Andreas ^a   Eisenegger, Christoph ^b   Hartmann, Matthias N ^a   Fischbacher, Urs ^c,d   Knoch, Daria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^d University of Konstanz and Thurgau Institute of Economics   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Decision making; Dopamine; Normative behavior; Punishment; Reward

Indexed keywords

BENSERAZIDE PLUS LEVODOPA; DOMPERIDONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNISHMENT; REWARD; SELFISH BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; YOUNG ADULT;

BEHAVIOR; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION MAKING; DOPAMINE AGENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EGO; HUMANS; LEVODOPA; MALE; PUNISHMENT; REWARD; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891827239     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-013-3210-x     Document Type: Article

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