Neuroeconomics: the neurobiology of decision-making

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Abstract

The ongoing synthesis of economic sciences, psychology and neuroscience in the new discipline of neuroeconomics, as well as development of new neuroimaging methods promise the appearance of a new interdisciplinary model, which explains decision-making mechanisms. The results of the neuroeconomical studies show that decision-making is determined by the work of relatively independent neural systems in the brain, chosen through natural selection. Interaction of «cognitive» and «emotional» neural mechanisms of decision making determines the degree of the rationality of human behavior.

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Keywords: : neuroeconomics, neurobiology, decision making, social influence, temporal discounting, moral dilemma, fMRI

Journal rubric: Psychophysiology

Article type: scientific article

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For citation: Klucharev, V.A., Smidts, A., Shestakova, A.N. (2011). Neuroeconomics: the neurobiology of decision-making . Experimental Psychology (Russia), 4(2), 14–35. (In Russ.). URL: https://psyjournals.ru/en/journals/exppsy/archive/2011_n2/41980 (viewed: 01.07.2025)

© Klucharev V.A., Smidts A., Shestakova A.N., 2011

License: CC BY-NC 4.0

Information About the Authors

Vasily A. Klucharev, Candidate of Science (Biology), Leading Researcher, Head of Laboratory, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, International Laboratory of Social Neurobiology, Professor, Graduate School of Business, Department of Strategic and International Management, Scientific Director of the educational program: Cognitive sciences and technologies: from neuron to cognition, HSE University, Leading Researcher at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5257-3789, e-mail: vasily.klucharev@unibas.ch

Ale Smidts, PhD, Ph.D. in Marketing, Professor, Director of the Erasmus Research Institute of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands, e-mail: ASmidts@rsm.nl

Anna N. Shestakova, PhD, Director, Centre for Cognition and Decision Making, National Research University Higher School of Economics, senior researcher at the Scientific and Educational Center for Neurocognitive Research (MEG Center), St.Petersburg, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9374-9878, e-mail: a.shestakova@hse.ru

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