Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section 1: The Fundamental Tools of Neuroeconomics -- 1. Basic Methods from Neoclassical Economics -- 2. Experimental Economics and Experimental Game Theory -- 3. Computational and Process Models of Decision Making in Psychology and Behavioral Economics -- 4. Estimation and Testing of Computational Psychological Models -- 5. Introduction to Neuroscience -- 6. Experimental Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience -- 7. Evolutionary Anthropological Insights into Neuroeconomics: What Non-Human Primates Can Tell Us about Human Decision-Making Strategies -- Section 2: Neural and Psychological Foundations of Economic Preferences -- 8. The Computation of Stimulus Values in Simple Choice -- 9. Valuation for Risky and Uncertain Choices -- 10. Valuation, Intertemporal Choice, and Self-Control -- 11. Social Preferences and the Brain -- 12. Neuroeconomics of Emotion and Decision Making -- 13. Multistage Valuation Signals and Common Neural Currencies -- 14. Pharmacology of Economic and Social Decision Making -- Section 3: Learning and Valuation -- 15. Value Learning through Reinforcement: The Basics of Dopamine and Reinforcement Learning -- 16. Advanced Reinforcement Learning -- 17. The Basal Ganglia, Reinforcement Learning, and the Encoding of Value -- 18. From Experienced Utility to Decision Utility -- Section 4: The Neural Mechanisms for Choice -- 19. Neural Mechanisms for Perceptual Decision Making -- 20. Value-based Decision Making -- 21. Multiple Systems for Valuation Learning -- 22. Integrating Benefits and Costs in Decision Making -- 23. Neuronal Circuit Computation of Choice -- 24. The Neurobiology of Context-Dependent Valuation and Choice -- Section 5: Brain Circuitry of Social Valuation and Social Choice -- 25. The Neural Basis of Strategic Choice -- 26. Brain Circuitry for Social Decision Making in Non-Human Primates -- 27. Understanding Others: Brain Mechanisms of Theory of Mind and Empathy -- Appendix: Prospect Theory and the Brain.

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Neuroeconomics is a young, interdisciplinary field dealing with the neurobiology of decision making and how it affects cognitive social interactions between humans and societies/economies. It studies how economic behavior can shape our understanding of the brain, and how neuroscientific discoveries can constrain and guide models of economics. Neuroeconomics studies decision making by using a combination of tools from neuroscience, economics and psychology to avoid the shortcoming that arise from a single perspective approach. Offering the necessary interdisciplinary approach, Neuroeconomics second edition presents research from neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics. Edited by two of the founders of the field, this edition once again offers a current and comprehensive review of the field. With chapters authored by all the major figures, this new edition will serve to advance understanding of the following as related to the human brain through neoclassical economic approaches, behavioral economics, social decision making, valuation, and neural mechanism for choice.

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