Moral concerns increase attention and response monitoring during IAT performance: ERP evidence

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 141-149

  Van Nunspeet, Félice ^a   Ellemers, Naomi ^a   Derks, Belle ^a   Nieuwenhuis, Sander ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conflict monitoring; Error related negativity; Morality; Social categorization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; CONFLICT MONITORING; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ERROR-RELATED NEGATIVITY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORALITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RELIGION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CATEGORIZATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

CONFLICT MONITORING; ERROR-RELATED NEGATIVITY; MORALITY; SOCIAL CATEGORIZATION;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISLAM; JUDGMENT; MALE; MORALS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893354255     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss118     Document Type: Article

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