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Voters’ Facial Expression Analysis as a Complement to Traditional Election Polls: Affective Voting in Spanish National Elections in 2023

Social Science Quarterly, Volume 107, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Objectives This research jointly combines voters. biometric facial expression analysis while viewing images of candidates and party logos with traditional surveys to define and quantify novel indicators of affective voting. The paper explains the innovative methodology and analyzes the results of the experiment carried out before the 2023 ...
Francisco Javier Otamendi, Lucía M. Guerras, Félix‐Fernando Muñoz, Eva Borrega‐Alonso   +3 more
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A unified neural account of contextual and individual differences in altruism

eLife, 2023
Altruism is critical for cooperation and productivity in human societies but is known to vary strongly across contexts and individuals. The origin of these differences is largely unknown, but may in principle reflect variations in different ...
Jie Hu, Arkady Konovalov, Christian C Ruff   +2 more
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Models in Decision‐Making Under Risk and Uncertainty

Journal of Economic Surveys, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 304-320, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper systematically compares dominant frameworks for modeling decision‐making under risk and uncertainty, evaluating their theoretical trade‐offs and practical relevance for economic research. We establish key criteria for model selection—including predictive accuracy, descriptive realism, computational tractability, and ecological ...
Martin Höppner
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Causal involvement of dorsomedial prefrontal cortex in learning the predictability of observable actions

Nature Communications
Social learning is well established across species. While recent neuroimaging studies show that dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC/preSMA) activation correlates with observational learning signals, the precise computations that are implemented by DMPFC/
Pyungwon Kang, Marius Moisa, Björn Lindström, Alexander Soutschek, Christian C. Ruff, Philippe N. Tobler   +5 more
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Autonomy Raises Productivity: An Experiment Measuring Neurophysiology

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Employees have been given increasing autonomy to work from home, from virtual offices, and during travel. Understanding why autonomy affects work behaviors has relied to date on self-reported data in which employees may consciously or unconsciously ...
Rebecca Johannsen, Rebecca Johannsen, Paul J. Zak, Paul J. Zak   +3 more
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From Rational Agents to Learning Agents: A Structured Review and Conceptual Framework for MARL in Economic Modeling

Complexity, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
This paper provides a systematic review of the emerging literature on multiagent reinforcement learning (MARL) in economics. The review is motivated by the rapid expansion of MARL methods in computational modeling and the lack of a clear framework that connects this literature to established economic approaches.
Yiwei Wang, Hiroki Sayama
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Modern Transformations of Economics: Neuroeconomics

Theory, Methodology, Practice, 2016
Traditionally, economists have not been interested in the neural underpinnings of human behavior. According to the classical decision-making theory, a decision-maker is a perfectly rational cognitive agent ignoring the influence of emotions.
Tatevik Mkrtchyan
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The Neural Basis of Herding Decisions in Enterprise Clustering: An Event-Related Potential Study

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2019
Herding behavior refers to the social phenomenon in which people are intensely influenced by the decisions and behaviors of others in the same group. Although several recent studies have explored the neural basis of herding decisions in people’s daily ...
Wuke Zhang, Wuke Zhang, Danping Yang, Jia Jin, Jia Jin, Liuting Diao, Liuting Diao, Qingguo Ma, Qingguo Ma, Qingguo Ma   +9 more
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Beyond Traditional Metrics: Developing and Validating a Multidimensional Scale for Consumer Financial Well‐Being

Psychology &Marketing, Volume 42, Issue 12, Page 3141-3161, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper proposes a scale for measuring consumer financial well‐being (CFW), covering its dimensions and consequences. The holistic nature of the scale is a significant improvement on the existing measures of CFW, which cover only a few dimensions, such as debt and financial distress, without focusing on the consequences of CFW.
Mandeep Mahendru, Gagan Deep Sharma, Nisreen Ameen, The Khoa Do, Vijay Periera, Kamlesh Singh   +5 more
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Avoiding Pain to Others Motivates Effortful Prosocial Behavior

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1553, Issue 1, Page 379-390, November 2025.
Protecting others from harm is critical for societal well‐being but is often effortful. We examined how individuals choose to exert physical effort to reduce their and another person's pain. Results showed that individuals are similarly motivated to incur effort costs to help themselves and another person. We demonstrated that humans are not inherently
Claudia Massaccesi, Lei Zhang, Giorgia Silani, Claus Lamm   +3 more
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