We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (“fMRI”) to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying home–biased, financial decision-making. Twenty-eight subjects were instructed to make binary investment decisions between a foreign and a domestic mutual fund. Differential brain activity...

Decision support systems continue to be very popular in business, despite mixed research evidence as to their effectiveness. We hypothesize that what-if analysis, a prominent feature of most decision support systems, creates an “illusion of control” causing users to overestimate its...

In diesem Artikel wird über eine Inhaltsanalyse berichtet, deren Ziel es ist, Aussagen über die Verbreitung von kurzfristig hochaktuellen, rasch wieder abflauenden und selten zum Erkenntnisfortschritt beitragenden Moden innerhalb einer Wissenschaftsdisziplin, der angloamerikanischen...