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Title Handbook on psychology of decision-making : new research / Karen O. Moore and Nancy P. Gonzalez, editors.

Publication Info. New York, N..Y. : Nova Science Publisher's, [2012]

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Psychology of emotions, motivations, and actions
Psychology of emotions, motivations, and actions series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents HANDBOOK ON PSYCHOLOGY OF DECISION-MAKING: NEW RESEARCH; HANDBOOK ON PSYCHOLOGY OF DECISION-MAKING: NEW RESEARCH; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Chapter 1: THE POINT OF VIEW OF NEUROSCIENCE ON DECISION-MAKING; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; Decisions are complex; Why Cognitive Neuroscience?; PART ONE. FRN: WHAT CAN THIS EVENT-RELATED POTENTIAL TELL US ON DECISION-MAKING; 1. FRN: names and nature; 2. Tasks Eliciting FRN; 2.1. Classical Gambling Task; 2.2. Variations of the Gambling Task; 2.3. Blackjack-like Task; 2.4. Dice game; 2.5. Slot-machine Task.
2.6. Rock-paper-scissors Task2.7. Video Game task; 2.8. Social Gambling Task: Chuck-A-Luck Dice Game; 2.9. Social Gambling Tasks: Simple Gambling Task; 3. Valence Effect and Binary Evaluation; 4. Magnitude Effect; 5. Probability and Expectation; 6. Incongruence and Context; 7. FRN in Social Gambling Tasks; 8. Source Analyses; 9. Open Questions; PART TWO. EMOTIONS IN DECISION-MAKING: EVIDENCES FROM COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE; 10. The Somatic Marker Hypothesis; 10.2. Emotions in social decision-making: the case of the Ultimatum Game; 11. What Can Neuroscience Tell Us About?
11.1. Psychophysiological studies: skin conductance response (SCR)11.2. Brain imaging studies: functional magnetic resonance (fMRI); 11.3. Neuropsychological studies: prefrontal patients; 11.4. Brain stimulation studies: transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), transcranialdirect current stimulation (tDCS), tryptophan depletion; 11.5. Event- Related Potentials (ERPs) studies; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 2: BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND DECISION MAKING IN ORGANIZATIONS: AN APPLICATION TO UNIVERSITY DECISION MAKING; INTRODUCTION.
BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS, BOUNDED RATIONALITY, AND THE DECISION PROCESS IN ORGANIZATIONSEconomic Analysis of the Decision-Making Process; Economic Theory of the Firm and Organizations; Psychology, Behavioral Economics, and Economic Theory of Organizations; Psychology, Behavioral Economics, and the Decision-Making Process in Organizations; THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION; Stakeholders and Motivations in the Decision-Making Process; Research on the Decision Process in Universities.
Modeling the Decision-Making Process in a University: Optimization and Behavioral EconomicsRethinking Economic Models of Organizational Decision Making; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 3: A REVIEW OF AFFECTIVE AND COGNITIVE APPROACHES TO ASSESSING DECISION MAKING IN OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY; ABSTRACT; Introduction; Historical Perspectives to Understanding Overweight and Obesity; Psychosomatic Theories of Obesity; The Kaplan and Kaplan Psychosomatic Theory of Obesity; Bruch's Theory; Externality Theory; Restraint Theory; The Measurement of Restraint, External and Emotional Eating.
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Language English.
Subject Decision making -- Psychological aspects.
Decision making -- Psychological aspects.
Decision making -- Research.
Decision making -- Research.
Decision making.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Moore, Karen O.
Gonzalez, Nancy P.
Other Form: Print version: Handbook on psychology of decision-making New York, N..Y. : Nova Science Publisher's, c2012. 9781621005001 (hardcover) (DLC) 2011035484
ISBN 9781621005476 ebook
162100547X
9781621005001 hardcover
1621005003 (hardcover)