Towards a biopsychological understanding of costly punishment: The role of basal cortisol

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Pfattheicher, Stefan ^a   Keller, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PUNISHMENT;

AGGRESSION; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; PUNISHMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896963240     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085691     Document Type: Article

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