In the mind of the market: Theory of mind biases value computation during financial bubbles

Neuron

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1222-1231

  DeMartino, Benedetto ^a,b   O'Doherty, JohnP ^a   Ray, Debajyoti ^a   Bossaerts, Peter ^a,c   Camerer, Colin ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COST; DECISION MAKING; DORSOMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INVESTMENT; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONEY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; THEORY OF MIND; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; RISK SHARING, FINANCIAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENTS; THEORY OF MIND; TIME FACTORS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84884240861     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.07.003     Document Type: Article

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