Reducing aggressive responses to social exclusion using transcranial direct current stimulation

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 352-356

  Riva, Paolo ^a   Lauro, Leonor J Romero ^a   Nathan DeWall, C ^b   Chester, David S ^b   Bushman, Brad J ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aggression; Emotion regulation; Social exclusion; Social pain; Transcranial direct current stimulation (tdcs)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; AGING; ANGER; ATTITUDE; ELECTRODE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; AGING; ANGER; ELECTRODES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924584135     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsu053     Document Type: Article

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