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More infoThe Measurement of Subjective Value and Its Relation to Contingent Valuation and Environmental Public Goods
NEUROSCIENCE The Measurement of Subjective Value and Its Relation to Contingent Valuation and Environmental Public Goods AUTHORS: ABSTRACT Environmental public goods—including national parks, clean air/water, and ecosystem services—provide...
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NEUROSCIENCE Dynamical analysis of value coding ABSTRACT Information coding in the brain is often viewed in terms of equilibrium levels of activity, but neural circuits exhibit marked temporal dynamics during the decision process. Significant...
More infoSaving the masses: The impact of perceived efficacy on charitable giving to single vs. multiple beneficiaries
NEUROSCIENCE Saving the masses: The impact of perceived efficacy on charitable giving to single vs. multiple beneficiaries AUTHORS: Professor Vicki Morwitz and Professor Eesha Sharma ABSTRACT People are more generous toward...
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NEUROSCIENCE Insight and addiction ABSTRACT Previous studies have suggested impairments in insight in neuropsychiatric disorders. However it is often difficult to distill impairments in insight from other cognitive impairments. Together with...
More infoUnderstanding the interaction between fear and choice behavior in psychiatric disorders
NEUROSCIENCE Understanding the interaction between fear and choice behavior in psychiatric disorders ABSTRACT Recent evidence suggests that the excessive formation of habits plays an important role in a number of psychiatric disorders, including...
More infoRole of non-monetary incentives in decision making
NEUROSCIENCE Role of non-monetary incentives in decision making ABSTRACT People show age-related changes in decision-making. Therefore, we want to investigate the correlation between the brain structures and the generalized axiom of revealed...
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New Research from NYU, Princeton and UCL Researchers Published in PLoS Computational Biology
New Research from NYU, Princeton and UCL Researchers Published in PLoS Computational Biology February 16, 2017 The decisions we make are only as good as the information we base those decisions off of, but a lot of that information comes to us via...
More infoEconomic decision-making in Drosophila larvae
NEUROSCIENCE Economic decision-making in Drosophila larvae ABSTRACT The goal of this project is two-fold. First, we use tools from microeconomics to characterize the choices of wild type Drosophila larvae as they tradeoff goods (dark and food) in...
More infoAcute Stress and Reinforcement Learning
NEUROSCIENCE Acute Stress and Reinforcement Learning ABSTRACT The physiological response evoked by short-lived stressful events, referred to as acute stress, impacts human decision-making. Past studies assume that stress causes people to fall...
More infoRestoring Justice: Punishing on behalf of another, but not for oneself
NEUROSCIENCE Restoring Justice: Punishing on behalf of another, but not for oneself ABSTRACT Classic social psychology and experimental economic studies argue that punishment is the ubiquitous response to violations of fairness norms. We...
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