Year: 2014
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: How do we make decisions? This question has long engaged researchers from various disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, economics, and cognitive neuroscience. Recently, a new discipline – neuroeconomics – emerged, devoted to addressing exactly this question by means of interdisciplinary endeavors. Broadly stated, neuroeconomics sets out “to promote interdisciplinary collaborations on the topics lying at the intersection of the brain and decision sciences in the hope of advancing both theory and research in decision making” (Society for Neuroeconomics, www.neuroeconomics.org), so that it can be used “for discrim‐ inating among standard economic models” (Maskin, 2008, p. 1788) and thus inform economic theory.
Source: InTech eBooks
DOI: 10.5772/58273
Authors: Kirsten G. Volz, Gerd Gigerenzer
Language: English
Subfield: General Decision Sciences
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2116309706