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Genetic Determinants of Financial Risk Taking
Kuhnen, Camelia M.; Chiao, Joan Y. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Individuals vary in their willingness to take financial risks. Here we show that variants of two genes that regulate dopamine and serotonin neurotransmission and have been previously linked to emotional behavior, anxiety and addiction (5-HTTLPR and DRD4) are significant determinants of risk...
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Reason, Emotion and Information Processing in the Brain
Brocas, Isabelle; Carrillo, Juan D - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
the process of decision-making that starts with sensory perception and ends in action selection. The brain sets a neuronal … for the hypothesis that emotions help decision-making. Last, we discuss the implications for choices in concrete vs …
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What neuroeconomics does really mean ?
Schmidt, Christian - In: Revue d'économie politique 118 (2008) 1, pp. 7-34
various contributions of this neuroeconomic approach to three main economic domains: The individual decision-making, the risk …
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The Possibility of a Welfare Policy in a World of Emotion-Driven Individuals: A Humean Point of View
Lapidus, André - HAL - 2011
Based on Hume's major philosophical works and on some of his Essays, this paper discusses formally the feasibility, from a Humean point of view, of a welfare policy which would aim at promoting the highest individual happiness whereas individual decisions, like individual happiness, are...
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Introduction to the special issue: Intuition and affect in risk perception and decision making
Boehm, Gisela; Brun, Wibecke - In: Judgment and Decision Making 3 (2008) January, pp. 1-4
decision making for a long time. Judgmental processes involved in risk perception and decision making have traditionally been … picture started to change in the early 1980s when decision researchers looked beyond rational, deliberate, and cognitive … --- aspects of decision making. In sum, decision research has seen a proliferation of approaches that look beyond rational …
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Emotions and Economic Shocks in a First-Price Auction
Bosman, Ronald; Riedl, Arno - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
We investigate experimentally whether emotions affect bidding behavior in a firstprice auction. To induce emotions, we confront subjects after a first auction series with apositive or negative random economic shock. We then explore the relation between emotions andbidding behavior in a second...
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Hot vs. Cold: Sequential Responses and Preference Stability in Experimental Games
Charness, Gary B; Brandts, Jordi - Department of Economics, University of California-Santa … - 1998
In experiments with two-person sequential games we analyze whether responses to favorable and unfavorable actions depend on the elicitation procedure. In our 'hot' treatment the second player responds to the first player's observed action while in our 'cold' treatment we follow the 'strategy...
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Emotions and Economic Shocks in a First-Price Auction
Bosman, Ronald; Riedl, Arno - Tinbergen Institute - 2003
We investigate experimentally whether emotions affect bidding behavior in a first price auction. To induce emotions, we confront subjects after a first auction series with a positive or negative random economic shock. We then explore the relation between emotions and bidding behavior in a second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137109
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Recalibrational Emotions and the Regulation of Trust-Based Behaviors
Schniter, Eric; Shields, Timothy - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2013
emotion measures. Finally, in light of these discussions we suggest future directions for the investigation of emotions and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010817375
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Conflicted Emotions Following Trust-based Interaction
Schniter, Eric; Sheremeta, Roman M.; Shields, Timothy W. - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2013
We investigated whether 20 emotional states, reported by 170 participants after participating in a Trust game, were experienced in a patterned way predicted by the “Recalibrational Model” or Valence Models. According to the Recalibrational Model, new information about trust-based interaction...
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