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On the nature, modeling, and neural bases of social ties
Winden, Frans A. A. M. van; Stallen, Mirre; … - 2008
Purpose: This paper addresses the nature, formalization, and neural bases of (affective) social ties anddiscusses the relevance of ties for health economics. A social tie is defined as an affectiveweight attached by an individual to the well-being of another individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376614
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On the Nature, Modeling, and Neural Bases of Social Ties
Winden, Frans van; Stallen, Mirre; Ridderinkhof, K. Richard - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
<b>Purpose:</b><br>This paper addresses the nature, formalization, and neural bases of (affective) social ties anddiscusses the relevance of ties for health economics. A social tie is defined as an affectiveweight attached by an individual to the well-being of another individual ('utilityinterdependence')....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255951
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On the Nature, Modeling, and Neural Bases of Social Ties
van Winden, Frans; Stallen, Mirre; Ridderinkhof, K. Richard - 2008
<b>Purpose:</b><br>This paper addresses the nature, formalization, and neural bases of (affective) social ties anddiscusses the relevance of ties for health economics. A social tie is defined as an affectiveweight attached by an individual to the well-being of another individual ('utilityinterdependence')....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325717
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On the Nature, Modeling, and Neural Bases of Social Ties
Winden, Frans van; Stallen, Mirre; Ridderinkhof, K. Richard - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042221
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The Influence of Affect on Beliefs, Preferences and Financial Decisions
Kuhnen, Camelia; Knutson, Brian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
financial decisions in a predictable and parsimonious way. Our evidence suggests that affect -- generated either by exogenous … is consistent with the self-preservation motive of maintaining positive affect and avoiding negative affect, by not fully … making and affect important outcomes at the individual and aggregate level. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790468
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NEUROECONOMICS - ACTUAL DIRECTIONS IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
POPESCU, Ion; Bondrea, Aurelian; Constantinescu, Madalina - Facultatea de Finante şi Banci, Universitatea Spiru Haret - 2009
Our article offers a survey of behavioral economics and in its actual directions such neuroeconomics, including his historical origins, results, and methods. Our central thesis is that the development of behavioral economics in important respects parallels the development of cognitive science....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004995297
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Neuroeconomics, naturalism and language
Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten (contributor) - 2008
Neuroeconomics stays in the center of the ongoing naturalistic turn in economics. It portrays the individual as a complex system of decision making mechanisms and modules. This results into a conceptual tension with the standard economic notion of the unity of the actor that is a systemic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003785973
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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024597
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The Impact of Soft Traits and Cognitive Abilities on Life Outcomes: Subjective Wellbeing, Education Achievement, and Rational Choices: a Chocolate Tasting Experiment
Savastano, Sara - Centro di Studi Internazionali Sull'Economia e la … - 2012
Linking to a growing literature in behavioral economics, this study combines neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics to empirically analyze the extent to which academic achievement, the relative weight of rationality vs. fairness in decision-making, and life satisfaction are affected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010558530
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The economics of risky health behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278806