Low social status decreases the neural salience of unfairness

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Hu, Jie ^a   Cao, Yuan ^a   Blue, Philip R ^a   Zhou, Xiaolin ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

ERP; Fairness; LPP; N400; P2; Social hierarchy; Social status; Ultimatum game

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; RECIPIENT; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL STATUS;

EID: 84979920439     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00402     Document Type: Article

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