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Dopamine and Risk Choices in Different Domains : Findings Among Serious Tournament Bridge Players

Dreber, Anna; Rand, David G.; Wernerfelt, Nils; Garcia, … - 2011

We explore how risk-taking in the card game contract bridge, and in a financial gamble, correlate with variation in the dopamine receptor D4 gene (DRD4) among serious tournament bridge players. In bridge risk-taking, we find significant interactions between genetic predisposition and skill....

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The foundations of behavioral economic analysis

Dhami, Sanjit S. - 2016 - First edition

This is the first definitive introduction to behavioral economics aimed at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students. Authoritative, cutting edge, yet accessible, it guides the reader through theory and evidence, providing engaging and relevant applications throughout

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The foundations of behavioral economic analysis

Dhami, Sanjit S. - 2016

expected utility theory (EU) -- 1.2.2 Attitudes to risk under EU …1.3 Subjective expected utility theory (SE -- 1.4 Eliciting the utility function under EU -- 1.4.1 The case of known … probabilities -- 1.4.2 The case of unknown probabilities -- 1.5 Violations of expected utility theory -- 1.5.1 Violations of the …

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The 15-years-long emergency, the burial-of-the-dead conflict and the ultimatum game.

Villani, Salvatore - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The application of game theory and cognitive economy to analyze the problem of undesired location - The analysts of the processes of public bodies decision - taking have long been discussing on the establishment of proper strategies to manage "environmental conflicts" - above all the so-called...

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Hormones and social preferences

Buser, Thomas - 2011

We examine whether social preferences are determined by hormones. We do this by investigating whether markers for the strength of prenatal testosterone exposure (finger length ratios) and current exposure to progesterone and oxytocin (the menstrual cycle) are correlated with choices in social...

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Evolution of mindsight and psychological commitment among strategically interacting agents

Rtischev, Dimitry - In: Games 7 (2016) 3, pp. 1-16

We study the evolution of strategic psychological capabilities in a population of interacting agents. Specifically,we consider agentswhich are either blind orwithmindsight, and either transparent or opaque. An agent with mindsight can observe the psychological makeup of a transparent agent,...

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