Acting on social exclusion: Neural correlates of punishment and forgiveness of excluders

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 209-218

  Will, Geert Jan ^a,b   Crone, Eveline A ^a,b,c   Güroğlu, Berna ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dictator Game; Fairness; FMRI; Ostracism; Perspective taking

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; FEMALE; FORGIVENESS; GAME; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; PUNISHMENT; SOCIAL DISTANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

AFFECT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; FEMALE; FORGIVENESS; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE NET; PUNISHMENT; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928032633     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsu045     Document Type: Article

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