Economics

Neuroscience and the Economics of Decision Making

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In the last two decades there has been a flourishing of research carried out jointly by economists, psychologists, and neuroscientists. This meltdown of barriers between competences has led toward original approaches to investigate the mental and cognitive mechanisms involved in the way the economic agent col­lects, processes, and uses information to make choices. This research field involves a new kind of scientist, trained in different disciplines, familiar in man­aging experimental data, and with the mathematical foundations of decision- making. The ultimate goal of this research is to open the black-box to understand the behavioral and neural processes through which humans set preferences and translate these behaviors into optimal choices. This volume intends to bring forward new results and fresh insights into this matter.
The topics cover a broad field dealing with the mechanisms of decision- making, moral judgments, social preferences, and the role of emotions and learn­ ing in decision-making. The collected chapters focus on issues not only specific to neuroscience and economics but also to psychology, cognitive philosophy, sociology, and marketing science. In this respect, the book deals with the inter­ disciplinary aspects of decision-making. Finally, all the contributions make direct or indirect explicit reference to experimental results, and this is probably the major trait d’union of the whole book.

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Neuroscience and the Economics of Decision Making

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Publisher

USA : Routledge., 2012

Collation

1-257

Language

English

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: 978-0-203-12260-0

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NONE

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Edition

1st Edtion

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Economics

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