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February 23, 2015
Over the past several years, a subfield of the cognitive neuroscience of aging has emerged to investigate age differences in reward-based decision making across adulthood. The approach combines experimental methods, models, and theory from psychology, econ ...
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February 23, 2015
Aging can impact choices between alternatives that differ with respect to relative benefits and "costs" (e.g., time delays or risk); however, much remains to be learned about the specific cognitive, affective, and neural factors that govern choice behavior ...
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April 1, 2014
Choices about money have serious consequences both for individuals and society, as reckless spending by young adults and financial scamming of the elderly all too clearly demonstrate. Recent evidence from psychology and neuroscience suggests that financial ...
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January 24, 2013
This chapter summarizes recent findings in neuroeconomics suggesting that emotion (specifically, "anticipatory affect") can influence financial decisions. It then discusses how individual differences in anticipatory affect may promote proneness to consumer ...
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