The role of empathy in choosing rewards from another's perspective

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  O'Connell, Garret ^a   Christakou, Anastasia ^a   Haffey, Anthony T ^a   Chakrabarti, Bhismadev ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Empathy; Reward; Simulation; Social distance; Temporal discounting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; REWARD; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL DISTANCE;

EID: 84933674185     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum2013.00174     Document Type: Article

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