Medial Cortical Structures Mediate Implicit Trustworthiness Judgments about Kin Faces, but Not Familiar Faces: A Brief Report
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants/Stimuli
2.2. fMRI Acquisition
2.3. Behavioral Procedures
2.4. fMRI Trustworthiness Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Platek, S.M.; Hendry, J.C. Medial Cortical Structures Mediate Implicit Trustworthiness Judgments about Kin Faces, but Not Familiar Faces: A Brief Report. Psych 2019, 1, 482-490. https://doi.org/10.3390/psych1010037
Platek SM, Hendry JC. Medial Cortical Structures Mediate Implicit Trustworthiness Judgments about Kin Faces, but Not Familiar Faces: A Brief Report. Psych. 2019; 1(1):482-490. https://doi.org/10.3390/psych1010037
Chicago/Turabian StylePlatek, Steven M., and Judson C. Hendry. 2019. "Medial Cortical Structures Mediate Implicit Trustworthiness Judgments about Kin Faces, but Not Familiar Faces: A Brief Report" Psych 1, no. 1: 482-490. https://doi.org/10.3390/psych1010037