MAOA-L carriers are better at makingoptimal financial decisions under risk

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1714, 2011, Pages 2053-2059

  Frydman, Cary ^a   Camerer, Colin ^a   Bossaerts, Peter ^a,b   Rangel, Antonio ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Behavioural genetics; Decision making; Monoamine oxidase A; Neuroeconomics; Risk taking

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; NEUROLOGY; POLYMORPHISM; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 79957661707     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2304     Document Type: Article

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