Results 11 to 20 of about 1,575,166 (96)
Complementary Cognitive Capabilities, Economic Decision-Making, and Aging [PDF]
Psychology and Aging, 2013 Fluid intelligence decreases with age, yet evidence about age declines in decision-making quality is mixed: Depending on the study, older adults make worse, equally good, or even better decisions than younger adults.
Ye Li +3 more
semanticscholar +2 more sources
Destructive Behavior, Judgment, and Economic Decision-Making Under Thermal Stress
, 2019 Accumulating evidence indicates that environmental temperature substantially affects economic outcomes and violence, but the reasons for this linkage are only partially understood.
Ingvild Almås +8 more
semanticscholar +1 more source
Cerebral Cortex, 2016 Adaptive choice behavior depends critically on identifying and learning from outcome-predicting cues. We hypothesized that attention may be preferentially directed toward certain outcome-predicting cues.
René San Martín +3 more
semanticscholar +1 more source
Contributions of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex to Social Influence in Economic Decision-Making
Cerebral Cortex, 2017 Economic decisions are guided by highly subjective reward valuations (SVs). Often these SVs are over-ridden when individuals conform to social norms. Yet, the neural mechanisms that underpin the distinct processing of such normative reward valuations ...
Apps Maj., Apps Maj., N. Ramnani
semanticscholar +1 more source
The Effects of Alcohol Use on Economic Decision Making
, 2017 It is notoriously hard to study the effect of alcohol on decision making, given the selection that takes place in who drinks alcohol and when they choose to do so.
Klajdi Bregu +3 more
semanticscholar +1 more source
Bringing Ecosystem Services into Economic Decision-Making: Land Use in the United Kingdom
Science, 2013 Monitoring Land Use Land-use decisions are based largely on agricultural market values. However, such decisions can lead to losses of ecosystem services, such as the provision of wildlife habitat or recreational space, the magnitude of which may ...
I. Bateman +24 more
semanticscholar +1 more source
Cognitive Fatigue Destabilizes Economic Decision Making Preferences and Strategies
PLoS ONE, 2015 Objective It is common for individuals to engage in taxing cognitive activity for prolonged periods of time, resulting in cognitive fatigue that has the potential to produce significant effects in behaviour and decision making.
O’Dhaniel A. Mullette-Gillman +2 more
semanticscholar +1 more source
On the sunk-cost effect in economic decision-making: a meta-analytic review
, 2015 Although the effect of monetary sunk costs on decision-making is widely discussed, research is still fragmented, and results are sometimes controversial.
S. Roth, T. Robbert, Lennart Straus
semanticscholar +1 more source
Effects of Stress on Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments
Social Science Research Network, 2014 The ways in which preferences respond to the varying stress of economic environments is a key question for behavioral economics and public policy. We conducted a laboratory experiment to investigate the effects of stress on financial decision making ...
L. Delaney, G. Fink, Colm Harmon
semanticscholar +1 more source
Women’s economic empowerment and health related decision-making in rural Sierra Leone
Culture, Health and Sexuality, 2019 Maternal mortality rates during childbirth in Sierra Leone are amongst the highest globally, with 1360 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. Furthermore, the country’s neonatal mortality rate is estimated at 39 deaths per 1000 live births.
Hilary Cornish +7 more
semanticscholar +1 more source