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Risk preferences in New Yorkers’ everyday decisions. Correlation of risk preferences across different decision-making domains.
NEUROSCIENCE Risk preferences in New Yorkers’ everyday decisions. Correlation of risk preferences across different decision-making domains. ABSTRACT Most of the important decisions that we make in life are made under conditions of uncertainty...
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Calling All Grad Students! Attention Graduate students and faculty at the start of your careers: Looking for a summer program or to expand your horizons? There will be a 2nd Summer Institute in Social-Science Genomics based in Santa Barbara...
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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...
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NEUROSCIENCE Information sampling behavior with explicit sampling costs AUTHORS: Laurence Maloney,Todd M. Gureckis, and Mordechai Juni. ABSTRACT The decision to gather information should take into account both the value of information...
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NEUROSCIENCE Criterion learning for perceptual decisions under uncertainty ABSTRACT Signal detection theory posits that observers set a fixed criterion in making a forced-choice decision based on noisy sensory information. How is that criterion...
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NEUROSCIENCE Genes, Smoking, and Health ABSTRACT Research on the impact of genes on smoking and through smoking on health. We are using the genomic Health and Retirement Survey both to confirm earlier GWAS findings on smoking and genes, and to...
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NEUROSCIENCE Evidence demonstrating working memory limitations in human decision-making ABSTRACT If you were asked to evaluate the lottery [0.8765 probability of $99.98 or 0.1235 probability of $53.46], you will likely “edit” the numbers by...
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NEUROSCIENCE Computational Phenotypes of Decision Making in Heroin Addiction AUTHORS: Anna B Konova, Silvia Lopez-Guzman, John Rotrosen, Stephen Ross and Paul W Glimcher. ABSTRACT Decision-making is strongly affected by drugs of abuse. The...
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NEUROSCIENCE Suboptimal Criterion Learning in Static and Dynamic Environments AUTHORS: LElyse H. Norton, Stephen M. Fleming, Nathaniel D. Daw, and Michael S. Landy ABSTRACT Humans often make decisions based on uncertain...
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