Behavioral and neural correlates of increased self-control in the absence of increased willpower

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 27, 2014, Pages 9786-9791

  Magen, Eran ^a   Kim, Bokyung ^b   Dweck, Carol S ^b   Gross, James J ^b   McClure, Samuel M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Judgment and decision making; Neuroeconomics; Reward reframing; Temporal discounting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DELAY DISCOUNTING; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FRAMING BIAS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SATISFACTION; SELF CONTROL; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS;

JUDGMENT AND DECISION-MAKING; NEUROECONOMICS; REWARD REFRAMING; TEMPORAL DISCOUNTING;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE;

EID: 84903978318     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1408991111     Document Type: Article

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