| Literature DB >> 19015083 |
Oliver C Schultheiss1, Michelle M Wirth, Christian E Waugh, Steven J Stanton, Elizabeth A Meier, Patricia Reuter-Lorenz.
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This study tested the hypothesis that implicit power motivation (nPower), in interaction with power incentives, influences activation of brain systems mediating motivation. Twelve individuals low (lowest quartile) and 12 individuals high (highest quartile) in nPower, as assessed per content coding of picture stories, were selected from a larger initial participant pool and participated in a functional magnetic resonance imaging study during which they viewed high-dominance (angry faces), low-dominance (surprised faces) and control stimuli (neutral faces, gray squares) under oddball-task conditions. Consistent with hypotheses, high-power participants showed stronger activation in response to emotional faces in brain structures involved in emotion and motivation (insula, dorsal striatum, orbitofrontal cortex) than low-power participants.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 19015083 PMCID: PMC2607053 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsn030
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci ISSN: 1749-5016 Impact factor: 3.436