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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"neuroeconomics"”.
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Neuroeconomics of Reward Information and Motivation
… provides background on neuroscience, fMRI, and neuroeconomics. Chapter 2 sketches the central challenges of using neuroscience to address economic questions. The first half of the chapter discusses familiar arguments against the integration of neuroscience and economics: behavioral sufficiency …
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Essays in Behavioral Economics and Neuroeconomics
… unrelated chapters on Behavioral Economics and Neuroeconomics, all of which are on different topics. Chapter 1: Willingness to Get Vaccinated Against COVID-19 and Reasons for Hesitancy Among U.S Residents. Chapter 2: Testosterone Administration Induces A Red Shift in Democrats. Chapter 3: …
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Understanding neural mechanisms of strategic learning: correlates, causality, and applications
… study on learning in the repeated game from the neuroeconomics perspective. Theoretically, learning theory has been developed to complement the traditional game theory in seeking to explain how and which equilibria might arise as a consequence of nonequilibrium dynamics among agents with bounded …
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The Role of Social Cognition and Person Perception in Economic Social Decision-Making
… However, until recently, much research in neuroeconomics and behavioral economics has examined social decision-making while failing to take into account the importance of the social context and social cognitive processes that are engaged when viewing another person. Using social …
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Organizational Trust, Intrinsic Motivation and Discretionary Effort: Three Studies
… an intervention at an online retailer and a neuroeconomics experiment to quantify how organizational trust and intrinsic motivation improves outcomes for businesses and employees. Analysis of the national sample showed that organizational trust and alignment with the company's purpose are …
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The Behavioral and Neural Bases of Social Economic Decision-Making
… their own outcomes, behavioral economics and neuroeconomics offer research strategies which help us explore our social motivations. This dissertation consists of three essays studying the underlying behavioral and neural mechanisms of individuals' social economic decision-making. The analyses …
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Revealing Preferences: a neuroeconometric approach to understanding decision-making behaviour
… of rewards. A key interest in the field of neuroeconomics is how the neuronal representation of reward value underlies this motivational behavioural. Hitherto, research in this area has examined single rewards, mostly in binary choice scenarios. This project aimed to integrate empirical …
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Thinking in patterns : representations in the neural basis of theory of mind
… in Chapter 5, I extend a model from vision and neuroeconomics - predictive coding - and explore its application to the neural basis of social cognition. Together, this work provides a key next step to understanding the neural basis of theory of mind, by demonstrating that it is possible to find …
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Experiential and Neurobiological Influences on Economic Preferences and Risky Decision Making
… problems, behavioral economics and neuroeconomics offer research strategies that help us explore the factors that influence economic preferences and risky decision-making process. This dissertation consists of three essays studying the underlying experiential influences on economic …
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Making decisions under conflict with a continuous mind: from micro to macro time scales
… Busemeyer, 1995). A very recent approach, called neuroeconomics, started out to investigate what happens behind the scenes of a final decision. Using modern neuroimaging methods, many neuroeconomists explain decision making in the brain in terms of a hierarchy of different neural modules that work …
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The Arousing Risk: Influences of positive and negative arousal on preferences for economic risk
… Developments in cognitive psychology and neuroeconomics showed the volatility of such conceptualization highlighting human bounded rationality and discussing the role of decision maker’s affective state (basic reactions to any emotionally charged event) in cognitive evaluation of risk …
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Choice with Indexed Alternatives: a Theoretical and Experimental Analysis
… recent evidence collected by the new approach of neuroeconomics and the rapid growth of new teorie have triggered a methodological debate about whether and how these sources of new empirical data and psychological insights should be used in economics (Caplin and Schotter, 2008). While some authors …
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Neural Circuitry of Social Valuation
<p>Few aspects of human cognition are more personal than the choices we make. Our decisions — from the mundane to the impossibly complex — continually shape the courses of our lives. In recent years, researchers have applied the tools of neuroscience to understand the mechanisms that …
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Measuring the Subjective Value of Effort in Behaviour and Midbrain Dopamine Neurons
Reward follows work, but with finite energy, all life must decide what reward is worth the work. Economic theory provides a framework of how rational decision makers optimise this choice: agents should maximise the possible utility (subjective benefit) discounted by the disutility (subjective cost) …
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Adaptive Economics: A neuroethological approach to the study of preferences, biases, and choice
A neuron's curse is that at every given time, with the information available to it, it must choose to either send a signal to its neighbouring cells or remain silent. It has evolved to be the optimal decision unit and, together with around 86 billion of its neighbours, the neuron keeps us alive, …
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A Quantitative Neural Biomarker for Rejection Estimation: A Neuroeconomic Approach for Evaluating Theory of Mind
The clinical presentation of social phobia suggests that alterations in theory of mind (TOM) may play a systematic role in the development and maintenance of the disorder. In the current study we leverage a quantitative neuroeconmic approach to probe for neural and behavior markers of cognitive …