Association for NeuroPsychoEconomics

09/29/2019

04/03/2018

2018 NEUROPSYCHOECONOMICS CONFERENCE

We are happy to present the preliminary program for the 2018 NeuroPsychoEconomics Conference:

Download it here: http://www.neuropsychoeconomics.org/2018-conference-program/

We are looking forward to an exciting conference schedule with a fellow’s address by Bernd Weber (University of Bonn), two keynote speeches by Sam McClure (Arizona State University) and Alan Sanfey (Donders Institute), 30+ talks on state-of-the-art research in neuroeconomics, decision neuroscience, consumer neuroscience/neuromarketing, and neurofinance, and a 15+ poster session on an interesting array of working papers.

The conference will be hosted at the Zürich Marriott Hotel in beautiful Zürich, Switzerland on May 25-25, 2018.

Please register for this conference today: http://www.neuropsychoeconomics.org/conference/

We are happy to present the preliminary program for the 2018 NeuroPsychoEconomics Conference: Download it here: 2018_NeuroPsychoEconomics_Conference_Program. We are looking forward to an exciting conference schedule with a fellow’s address by Bernd Weber (University of Bonn), two keynote speeches ...

05/28/2017

Register today for the 13th NeuroPsychoEconomics Conference from June 8-9, 2017 in historic and beautiful Antwerp, Belgium.

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Register here:
http://www.neuropsychoeconomics.org/conference/

We hope to see you this summer in Antwerp!

We are looking forward to an exciting 2017 NeuroPsychoEconomics Conference with diverse items including key notes by leading scholars in the field, plenary sessions, poster sessions, and social events including a reception, lunch, and dinner. Download the final Conference Program.

05/25/2016

Participate in the 12th NeuroPsychoEconomics Conference in Bonn, Germany on June 2-3, 2016!

Please register today: http://www.jnpe.org/front_content.php?idcat=12

KEYNOTES:
Professors Wolfram Schultz (University of Cambridge) and Burkhard Pleger (MPI Leipzig) will provide two keynote speeches. We look forward to listening to their work on the neuroscience of goal-directed and reward-related behavior (Schultz) and the neuroscience of overweight and obesity (Pleger).

TALKS & POSTERS:
We received an overwhelming number of submissions this year, and we are happy to announce a fantastic program with dozens of top-notch research presentations from the social, cognitive, affective neuroscience as well as cognitive psychology. We will also host a poster sessions, featuring the hottest work-in-progress.

SOCIAL EVENTS:
We will have several social events, the highlight being a festive dinner in the "Weinstube" on Godesburg Castle!

PROGRAM:
Download the program here:http://www.jnpe.org/upload/pdf/2016_NeuroPsychoEconomics_Conference_Program.pdf

We look forward to seeing you in Bonn!
Bernd Weber (President & Conference Chair), Oliver Schilke, and Martin Reimann (Founders)

The Association for NeuroPsychoEconomics is the premier scholarly organization for scientists and professionals in neuroscience, psychology, business, and economics. The Association integrates fields such as neuroeconomics, decision neuroscience, consumer neuroscience, and neurofinance

03/21/2016

Check out this research by Resende and Zeidan:

Psychological biases and economic expectations: Evidence on industry experts.

http://bit.ly/1UmvtdB

"This article investigates possible psychological biases concerning the expectations of firm representatives (experts) using a survey of 30 industrial sectors in Brazil during the 1999Q3 through 2009Q4 period. The econometric approach builds on the work of Bovi (2009) by considering the significance of discrepancies between ex-post evaluations and ex-ante expectations. We extend the analysis by highlighting sectoral evidence from industry experts instead of aggregate evidence from lay people. The evidence, in the case of perceptions of general economic conditions, indicates the presence of important psychological biases on experts’ expectations, even when they have the incentive to collect costly information."

03/18/2016

OPEN SUBMISSION
2016 CONFERENCE http://bit.ly/1R35PrZ

03/18/2016

Check out this research by Verbeke and colleagues:

Postgame testosterone levels of individuals in team-based status games are affected by genetic makeup, gender, and winning versus losing.

http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/npe/8/3/135/

"Testosterone, a steroid hormone, affects the ability of the prefrontal cortex to regulate the limbic system and therefore has been implicated in a wide range of social behaviors such as facing status challenges, aggression and dominance. Here we use a team-based status game to examine factors that determine the postgame testosterone (T) levels of participants who were on the winning or losing team in a status game. We focused on functional polymorphisms in 2 candidate genes, namely DRD4 and COMT because these genes are densely expressed in the prefrontal cortex and thus affect peoples’ self-regulation ability. Being on the winning team does not automatically lead to higher postgame T levels. Postgame T levels were affected by pregame T level and genetic makeup of the DRD4 gene variants for male and COMT gene variants for female participants, respectively. These findings remain robust when we controlled for contextual variables related to game play. Such insights, based on genetic markers, might motivate researchers in neuro-economics to look closer at neuro-biological mechanisms, specifically the prefrontal-limbic connectivity that modifies when people engage in status games. "

02/10/2016

2016 NeuroPsychoEconomics Conference in Bonn, Germany:

PROFESSORS SCHULTZ AND PLEGER WILL GIVE KEYNOTE SPEECHES:
Professors Wolfram Schultz (University of Cambridge) and Burkhard Pleger (MPI Leipzig) will provide keynote speeches during the 2016 NeuroPsychoEconomics Conference. We look forward to listening to their work on the neuroscience of goal-directed and reward-related behavior (Schultz) and the neuroscience of overweight and obesity (Pleger).

Submit your research today. Visit www.jnpe.org.

The Association for NeuroPsychoEconomics is the premier scholarly organization for scientists and professionals in neuroscience, psychology, business, and economics. The Association integrates fields such as neuroeconomics, decision neuroscience, consumer neuroscience, and neurofinance

12/11/2015

OPEN SUBMISSION
2016 CONFERENCE http://bit.ly/1lTND7A

11/19/2015

Check this research by Smith and colleagues:

An fMRI investigation of moral cognition in healthcare decision making.
http://bit.ly/1LnJKNc

"This study used fMRI to investigate the neural substrates of moral cognition in health resource allocation decision problems. In particular, it investigated the cognitive and emotional processes that underpin utilitarian approaches to health care rationing such as Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs). Participants viewed hypothetical medical and nonmedical resource allocation scenarios which described equal or unequal allocation of resources to different groups. In addition, participants were assigned to 1 of 2 treatments in which they either did or did not receive advanced instructions about the principles of utilitarianism. In all cases, participants were asked to judge the proposed allocations as “fair” or “unfair.” More brain activity was observed within the superior parietal lobe, angular gyrus, middle temporal gyrus, and bilateral caudate nucleus when participants viewed scenarios depicting equal divisions of resources. Conversely, unequal resource divisions were associated with more activity in the inferior frontal gyrus and insula cortex. Furthermore, instructions about the principles of utilitarianism led to significant activation differences within the inferior frontal gyrus and the middle frontal gyrus. Significant differences in activity were also found within the inferior frontal cortex and anterior insula between medical and nonmedical scenarios. The implications for cognitive control mechanisms and the cognitive and neural bases of utilitarian ethical judgment are discussed."

11/19/2015

BACK TO BONN
THE ROLE OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR IN JUDGMENT AND DECISION MAKING
2016 NeuroPsychoEconomics Conference
http://bit.ly/1IzAJPU

We are happy to announce that submissions are now open for the 12th Annual NeuroPsychoEconomics Conference in Bonn, Germany.
The conference chair is Bernd Weber, Professor of Neuroscience.
The deadline for submissions is April 15, 2016.
The conference will be held from June 2-3, 2016 at the Center for Economics and Neuroscience of the University of Bonn (Nachtigallenweg 86, 53127 Bonn, Germany, http://bit.ly/1IzALYi).

The Association for NeuroPsychoEconomics is the premier scholarly organization for scientists and professionals in neuroscience, psychology, business, and economics. The Association integrates fields such as neuroeconomics, decision neuroscience, consumer neuroscience, and neurofinance

10/11/2015

Risk, Reward & Music

http://bit.ly/1LAwNQw

Check out this research by Halko and colleagues:

Hedonic context modulates risky choices and reward responses in amygdala and dorsal striatum

The hedonic context of the environment can alter an individual’s emotional states and consequently their risk taking. Here we reveal the brain mechanisms underlying music-induced unstable risk preferences using functional MRI (fMRI). Subjects listened to self-selected liked or disliked music while they decided to accept or reject risky gambles. Behaviorally loss aversion was lower during liked music than during disliked or no music. At the neural level, reduced loss aversion was associated with a specific pattern of value coding in amygdala and dorsal striatum: during disliked music gambles with high expected reward induced higher activation than gambles with low expected reward, whereas during liked music this activation pattern was reversed. Furthermore, individual differences in loss aversion influenced value coding in such a way that for the most loss-averse subjects, bilateral activation of anterior insula, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and posterior parietal cortex increased as the expected value of the gamble increased, whereas for the least loss-averse subjects increase in potential reward was associated with decreasing activation in those areas. We propose music-modulated value coding in amygdala and striatum as a neural mechanism supporting emotion-dependent adjustments to risk-taking which in turn facilitate behavior depending on how dangerous versus safe the environment is experienced to be.