Beautiful friendship: Social sharing of emotions improves subjective feelings and activates the neural reward circuitry

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 801-808

  Wagner, Ullrich ^a,b   Galli, Lisa ^a   Schott, Björn H ^a   Wold, Andrew ^a,c   Van Der Schalk, Job ^d   Manstead, Antony S R ^d   Scherer, Klaus ^e   Walter, Henrik ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c Berlin School of Mind and Brain   (Germany)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Affiliation; Emotion regulation; FMRI; Reward; Social sharing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRIEND; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REWARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REWARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920480766     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsu121     Document Type: Article

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