An fMRI study of violations of social expectations: When people are not who we expect them to be

The current study examines the effect of violations of social expectancies on the neural substrates of person perception. In an event-related fMRI experiment, participants were presented with the photographs of either Republican or Democrat politicians paired with either typical Republican or Democr...

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Main Authors: Cloutier, J. (Author), Ambady, N. (Author), Gabrieli, John D. E. (Contributor), O'Young, Daniel (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier, 2016-05-12T01:55:26Z.
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