Thinking like a trader selectively reduces individuals' loss aversion

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 5035-5040

  Sokol Hessner, Peter ^a   Hsu, Ming ^b   Curley, Nina G ^a   Delgado, Mauricio R ^c   Camerer, Colin F ^d   Phelps, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arousal; Decision making; Emotion regulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AROUSAL; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; PLEASURE-PAIN PRINCIPLE;

EID: 65249096162     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806761106     Document Type: Article

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