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Social memory, social stress, and economic behaviors

Takahashi, Taiki - EconWPA - 2005

Social memory plays a pivotal role in social behaviors, from mating behaviors to cooperative behaviors based on reciprocal altruism. More specifically, social/person recognition memory is supposed, by behavioral-economic and game-theoretic analysis, to be required for tit- for-tat like...

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Neural correlates of the affect heuristic during brand choice

Plassmann, Hilke; Kenning, Peter; Deppe, Michael; … - EconWPA - 2005

brand choice immediately when the decision is computed in the test person’s brain. In a neuroscientific experiment test …

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A Theory of Natural Addiction

Smith, Trenton G.; Tasnádi, Attila - EconWPA - 2005

Economic theories of rational addiction aim to describe consumer behavior in the presence of habit-forming goods. We provide a biological foundation for this body of work by formally specifying conditions under which it is optimal to form a habit. We demonstrate the empirical validity of our...

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HEURISTICS USED BY HUMANS WITH PREFRONTAL CORTEX DAMAGE: TOWARD AN EMPIRICAL MODEL OF PHINEAS GAGE

Houser, Daniel; McCabe, Kevin; Keane, Michael; Bechara, … - EconWPA - 2003

in the gambling experiment (Bechara, Damasio, Damasio and Anderson, 1994). An advantage of our classification approach is …

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The Neural Basis of Financial Risk Taking

Kuhnen, Camelia; Knutson, Brian - EconWPA - 2005

optimal investment strategy of a rational risk- neutral agent as risk-seeking mistakes and risk-aversion mistakes. Nucleus … accumbens activation preceded risky choices as well as risk- seeking mistakes, while anterior insula activation preceded … riskless choices as well as risk-aversion mistakes. These findings suggest that distinct neural circuits linked to anticipatory …

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The Neuroeconomics of Trust

Zak, Paul J. - EconWPA - 2005

The traditional view in economics is that individuals respond to incentives, but absent strong incentives to the contrary selfishness prevails. Moreover, this “greed is good” approach is deemed “rational” behavior. Nevertheless, in daily interactions and in numerous laboratory studies, a...

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The intermingling between cognitive economics and experimental

Novarese, Marco; Rizzello, Salvatore - EconWPA - 2004

The paper discusses the relation between experimental economics and the cognitive approach, after having outlined the chief characteristics of the major lines of research in both areas, also with reference to the historical development and to methodological issues. Then the attention is focused...

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