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How context alters value: The brain’s valuation and affective regulation system link price cues to experienced taste pleasantness

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2017
Informational cues such as the price of a wine can trigger expectations about its taste quality and thereby modulate the sensory experience on a reported and neural level.
Liane Schmidt   +4 more
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Modulating the Activity of MPFC With tDCS Alters Endowment Effect

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2019
Endowment effect – the observation that people appear to attach more value to possessions than non-possessions – has been replicated in numerous experimental studies. Previous neuroimaging studies revealed that the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) plays a
Wenmin Guo   +9 more
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Modulating Activity in the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Changes Punishment in the 3-Player Prisoner’s Dilemma: A Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2019
Altruistic punishment of social norm violations plays a crucial role in maintaining widespread cooperation in human societies, and punitive behavior has been suggested to be related to the activity level of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC ...
Shu Chen   +7 more
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Worry, Risk Perception, and Controllability Predict Intentions Toward COVID-19 Preventive Behaviors

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
The ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 has already had serious worldwide health, socio-economic, political, and educational consequences. In the present study, we investigated what factors can motivate young adults to comply with the recommended preventive ...
Agata Sobkow   +6 more
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Measuring time preference: Theory, methods, and applications

open access: yesActa Psychologica
Measuring time preference is a fundamental challenge in both the theory and application of intertemporal decision-making. Current approaches can be broadly classified into two paradigms based on their utility representations: Money Earlier or Later (MEL)
Jinjin Wang, Yuzhen Li, Jun Luo, Hang Ye
doaj   +1 more source

tDCS Over DLPFC Leads to Less Utilitarian Response in Moral-Personal Judgment

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2018
The profound nature of moral judgment has been discussed and debated for centuries. When facing the trade-off between pursuing moral rights and seeking better consequences, most people make different moral choices between two kinds of dilemmas.
Haoli Zheng   +6 more
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Estimating the effect of central bank independence on inflation using longitudinal targeted maximum likelihood estimation

open access: yesJournal of Causal Inference, 2021
The notion that an independent central bank reduces a country’s inflation is a controversial hypothesis. To date, it has not been possible to satisfactorily answer this question because the complex macroeconomic structure that gives rise to the data has ...
Baumann Philipp F. M.   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards a transparent, credible, evidence-based decision-making process of new drug listing on the Hong Kong Hospital Authority Drug Formulary: challenges and suggestions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The aim of this article is to describe the process, evaluation criteria, and possible outcomes of decision-making for new drugs listed in the Hong Kong Hospital Authority Drug Formulary in comparison to the health technology assessment (HTA) policy ...
Cheung, Bernard M.Y.   +2 more
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Gender Difference in Gender Bias: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Reduces Male’s Gender Stereotypes

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2019
Stereotypes exist in the interactions between different social groups, and gender stereotypes are particularly prevalent. Previous studies have suggested that the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is involved in the social cognition that plays an important
Siqi Wang   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

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