Neural correlates of experienced moral emotion: An fMRI investigation of emotion in response to prejudice feedback

Social Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 203-218

  Fourie, Melike M ^a,b   Thomas, Kevin G F ^a   Amodio, David M ^c   Warton, Christopher M R ^a   Meintjes, Ernesta M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Behavioral inhibition; fMRI; Guilt; Moral emotions

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTION; GUILT; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MORALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREJUDICE; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS; TIME; VASCULARIZATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMOTIONS; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; GUILT; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MORALE; OXYGEN; PREJUDICE; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84893792782     PISSN: 17470919     EISSN: 17470927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2013.878750     Document Type: Article

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