Stimulus words used for the fMRI paradigm (six categories, six words each).

<p>The stimulus words in the table are given as the original German word (in single quotation marks) and as the English translation beneath (in italics). Words and their ordering are based on the open systems theory of values <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0018451#pone.0018451-Loevinger1" target="_blank">[10]</a>–<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0018451#pone.0018451-Graves1" target="_blank">[11]</a> and related theories <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0018451#pone.0018451-Rokeach1" target="_blank">[1]</a>–<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0018451#pone.0018451-Maslow1" target="_blank">[9]</a>.