Peer influence: Neural mechanisms underlying in-group conformity

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue FEB, 2013, Pages

  Stallen, Mirre ^a,b   Smidts, Ale ^a   Sanfey, Alan ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conformity; In group bias; Judgment and decision making; MRI imaging; Social influence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BOLD SIGNAL; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GROUP DYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PEER PRESSURE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84933671251     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00050     Document Type: Article

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