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Orbitofrontal cortex control of striatum leads economic decision-making
Nature Neuroscience, 2023 Animals must continually evaluate stimuli in their environment to decide which opportunities to pursue, and in many cases these decisions can be understood in fundamentally economic terms.
Felicity Gore +5 more
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Poverty and economic decision making: a review of scarcity theory
Theory and Decision, 2021 Poverty is associated with a wide range of counterproductive economic behaviors. Scarcity theory proposes that poverty itself induces a scarcity mindset, which subsequently forces the poor into suboptimal decisions and behaviors.
Ernst-Jan de Bruijn, G. Antonides
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Economic development and cultural change, 2020 We conduct a randomized experiment to evaluate the effect of a light-touch, low-cost psychological intervention on psychological well-being and economic decision-making in a developing country setting.
Victoria Baranov +2 more
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The Role of Emotional vs. Cognitive Intelligence in Economic Decision-Making Amongst Older Adults
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020 The links between emotions, bio-regulatory processes, and economic decision-making are well-established in the context of age-related changes in fluid, real-time, decision competency.
Kanchna Ramchandran +3 more
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Signal dynamics of midbrain dopamine neurons during economic decision-making in monkeys
Science Advances, 2020 Dopamine dynamics represent the internal process of economic decision-making in which option’s value is transformed into decision. When we make economic choices, the brain first evaluates available options and then decides whether to choose them ...
Mengxi Yun +4 more
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Poverty and Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from Changes in Financial Resources at Payday.
The American Economic Review, 2016 We study the effect of financial resources on decision-making. Low-income U.S. households are randomly assigned to receive an online survey before or after payday.
Leandro S. Carvalho +2 more
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Variation in primate decision-making under uncertainty and the roots of human economic behaviour
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2021 Uncertainty is a ubiquitous component of human economic behaviour, yet people can vary in their preferences for risk across populations, individuals and different points in time.
F. De Petrillo, A. Rosati
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 This review focuses on the issue of poverty affecting economic decision-making. By critically evaluating existing studies, the authors propose a structural model detailing the cognitive mechanism involved in how poverty negatively impacts economic ...
Matúš Adamkovič, Marcel Martončik
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018 Significance Information in the world can sometimes be irrelevant for our decisions. A good decision maker should take into account the relevant information and ignore the distracting information.
Vickie Li +4 more
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Economic Decision-Making in Parrots
Scientific Reports, 2018 Economic decision-making involves weighing up differently beneficial alternatives to maximise payoff. This sometimes requires the ability to forego one’s desire for immediate satisfaction. This ability is considered cognitively challenging because it not
A. Krasheninnikova +4 more
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