Decision neuroscience research, as currently practiced, employs the methods of
neuroscience to investigate concepts drawn from the social sciences. A typical study selects …

Few aspects of human cognition are more personal than the choices we make. Our
decisions—from the mundane to the impossibly complex—continually shape the courses of …

Despite substantial advances, the question of how we make decisions and judgments
continues to pose important challenges for scientific research. Historically, different …

In the past decade, decision neuroscience and neuroeconomics have developed many new
insights in the study of decision making. This review provides an overarching update on how …

In the years since it first published, Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain has
become the standard reference and textbook in the burgeoning field of neuroeconomics …

The neuroscience of decision making is a rapidly evolving multidisciplinary research area
that employs neuroscientific techniques to explain various parameters associated with …

By the late 1990s, several converging trends in economics, psychology, and neuroscience
had set the stage for the birth of a new scientific field known as “neuroeconomics”. Without …

The intersection between the fields of behavioral decision research and neuroscience has
proved to be fertile ground for interdisciplinary research. Whereas the former is rich in …

Standard economic theories conceive homo economicus as a rational decision maker
capable of maximizing utility. In reality, however, people tend to approximate optimal …

Here, we briefly review the evolution of research on human decision-making over the past
few decades. We discern a trend whereby biology moves from subserving economics …