Saving the Masses: The Role of Perceived Efficacy in Charitable Giving
NEUROSCIENCE Saving the Masses: The Role of Perceived Efficacy in Charitable Giving ABSTRACT People tend to be more sympathetic and generous to...
Read moreMeasuring people’s internal model of motor error distribution
NEUROSCIENCE Measuring people’s internal model of motor error distribution ABSTRACT A good decision maker in perception and action (e.g. a good...
Read moreDecision-Making Across the Life Span
NEUROSCIENCE Decision-Making Across the Life Span ABSTRACT Characterizing behavioral changes in decision-making across the life span and...
Read moreInsight and addiction
NEUROSCIENCE Insight and addiction ABSTRACT Previous studies have suggested impairments in insight in neuropsychiatric disorders. However it is...
Read moreCriterion learning for perceptual decisions under uncertainty
NEUROSCIENCE Criterion learning for perceptual decisions under uncertainty ABSTRACT Signal detection theory posits that observers set a fixed...
Read moreThe bounded log-odds model of frequency and probability distortion
NEUROSCIENCE The bounded log-odds model of frequency and probability distortion ABSTRACT People systematically distort probability and frequency...
Read moreEfficient coding in decision circuits
NEUROSCIENCE Efficient coding in decision circuits ABSTRACT A fundamental feature of neurobiological systems is adaptive coding, where neural...
Read moreThe MINY Van Project
NEUROSCIENCE The MINY Van Project ABSTRACT Research on household financial decisions using a newly-constituted Vanguard Research Institute Panel...
Read moreSuboptimal Criterion Learning in Static and Dynamic Environments
NEUROSCIENCE Suboptimal Criterion Learning in Static and Dynamic Environments AUTHORS: LElyse H. Norton, Stephen M...
Read moreStress and Gambling
NEUROSCIENCE Social Contagion ABSTRACT Decisions are often made around other people, even if the choices themselves don’t involve and are not...
Read moreProjection Bias
NEUROSCIENCE Projection Bias ABSTRACT Projection bias is exemplified by the “shopping while hungry” phenomenon, in which people overbuy at the...
Read moreThe effects of stress on aversive and appetitive conditioning and reversal
NEUROSCIENCE The effects of stress on aversive and appetitive conditioning and reversal ABSTRACT In this line of studies, we are examining how...
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