A neuropsychological approach to understanding risk-taking for potential gains and losses

IP Levin, G Xue, JA Weller, M Reimann… - Frontiers in …, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Affective neuroscience has helped guide research and theory development in judgment and
decision-making by revealing the role of emotional processes in choice behavior, especially …

Individual differences in risk preference predict neural responses during financial decision-making

JB Engelmann, D Tamir - Brain research, 2009 - Elsevier
We investigated the neural correlates of subjective valuations during a task involving risky
choices about lotteries. Because expected value was held constant across all lotteries …

A dual-process perspective to explore decision making in internet gaming disorder: an ERP study of comparison with recreational game users

Y Zhou, M Yao, S Fang, X Gao - Computers in Human Behavior, 2022 - Elsevier
Existing internet gaming disorder (IGD)-related research has focused on impulsive and
control systems separately, with little research conducted to explicitly explore these two …

An fMRI study of risk‐taking following wins and losses: Implications for the gambler's fallacy

G Xue, Z Lu, IP Levin, A Bechara - Human brain mapping, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Human decision‐making involving independent events is often biased and affected by prior
outcomes. Using a controlled task that allows us to manipulate prior outcomes, the present …

Motivation and the goal theory of current concerns

E Klinger, WM Cox - … and Intervention with Addiction and Other …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Behavior and experience are organized around the pursuit and enjoyment of goals.
Accordingly, this chapter first discusses basic motivational concepts that address the …

[HTML][HTML] Risk-related brain activation is linked to longitudinal changes in adolescent health risk behaviors

N Lauharatanahirun, DF Maciejewski… - Developmental cognitive …, 2023 - Elsevier
Middle adolescence is the period of development during which youth begin to engage in
health risk behaviors such as delinquent behavior and substance use. A promising …

The medial prefrontal cortex exhibits money illusion

B Weber, A Rangel, M Wibral… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Behavioral economists have proposed that money illusion, which is a deviation from
rationality in which individuals engage in nominal evaluation, can explain a wide range of …

Distributed value representation in the medial prefrontal cortex during intertemporal choices

Q Wang, S Luo, J Monterosso, J Zhang… - Journal of …, 2014 - Soc Neuroscience
The ability to resist current temptations in favor of long-term benefits is a critical human
capacity. Despite the extensive studies on the neural mechanisms of intertemporal choices …

Computational and neurobiological substrates of cost-benefit integration in altruistic helping decision

J Hu, Y Hu, Y Li, X Zhou - Journal of Neuroscience, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
Although altruistic behaviors, eg, sacrificing one's own interests to alleviate others' suffering,
are widely observed in human society, altruism varies greatly across individuals. Such …

Toward an affective neuroscience account of financial risk taking

CC Wu, MD Sacchet, B Knutson - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2012 - frontiersin.org
To explain human financial risk taking, economic, and finance theories typically refer to the
mathematical properties of financial options, whereas psychological theories have …