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NEUROSCIENCE Propranolol and Loss Aversion ABSTRACT Previous work has suggested that arousal responses to gain and loss outcomes are related to loss aversion in participants’ choices. Though these previous data are correlational, they suggest a...

NEUROSCIENCE Modeling and Measuring Costs of Learning ABSTRACT Theoretical and experimental research is ongoing on models of imperfect perception and how it is impacted by the incentive to learn. The project provides new characterizations of the...

NEUROSCIENCE Measuring people’s internal model of motor error distribution ABSTRACT A good decision maker in perception and action (e.g. a good surgeon, a good basketball player) needs to compensate for the irreducible errors in her own movement...

NEUROSCIENCE Interoception and Decision-Making ABSTRACT Studies on the roles of emotion in decision-making have highlighted a powerful role for emotions in influencing choices. The source of the individual differences in emotional responses, and...

NEUROSCIENCE Social Contagion ABSTRACT Decisions are often made around other people, even if the choices themselves don’t involve and are not about others. We know surprisingly little about the role of emotions in this particular kind of...