Kohn argues against the practice of offering people rewards in order to persuade them to get good grades, do good work, or behave in a certain manner, presenting evidence that shows the practice often has a negative effect, and discusses alternative methods of influencing behavi…
Kohn argues against the practice of offering people rewards in order to persuade them to get good grades, do good work, or behave in a certain manner, presenting evidence that shows the practice often has a negative effect, and discusses alternative methods of influencing behavi…
While optimism can help us alleviate immediate suffering and persevere in challenging times, merely dreaming about the future actually makes people more frustrated over the long term and less likely to achieve their goals. Oettingen introduces a new way to visualize the future, …
Decision neuroscience: an integrative perspective
Animal studies on rewards, punishments, and decision-making -- Human studies on motivation, perceptual, and value-based decision-making -- Social decision neuroscience -- Human clinical studies involving dysfunctions of reward and decision-making processes -- Genetic and hormona…
Decision neuroscience: an integrative perspective
Decision Neuroscience addresses fundamental questions about how the brain makes perceptual, value-based, and more complex decisions in non-social and social contexts. This book presents compelling neuroimaging, electrophysiological, lesional, and neurocomputational models in com…
Decision Neuroscience addresses fundamental questions about how the brain makes perceptual, value-based, and more complex decisions in non-social and social contexts. This book presents compelling neuroimaging, electrophysiological, lesional, and neurocomputational models in com…
Decision neuroscience: an integrative perspective
Decision neuroscience: an integrative perspective
Decision Neuroscience addresses fundamental questions about how the brain makes perceptual, value-based, and more complex decisions in non-social and social contexts. This book presents compelling neuroimaging, electrophysiological, lesional, and neurocomputational models in com…
The adolescent transition from childhood to adulthood requires a qualitative shift in the focus on social interactions and reward. The male Syrian hamster provides a unique model for understanding how social information processing matures throughout adolescence, as juvenile male…
Despite the fact that Internal Marketing (IM) has emerged to capture the interest of academic researchers and management practitioners, there is a surprising absence of empirical study investigating how IM is experienced in the world of practice. This constitutes an impediment t…
Nearly every movement we make reflects a decision. This decision likely involves a trade-off between maximizing reward and minimizing effort. How fast we move, vigor, can reveal how we value reward and effort when making movement decisions. The goal of this dissertation is to ga…
Theoretical and empirical work suggest that reactivity to stress and responsivity to reward are correlated domains of functioning, and that dysfunction in the stress and reward systems may underlie Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). The goals of the current study are to examine: (…
Pollination and Floral Ecology is the most comprehensive single-volume reference to all aspects of pollination biology--and the first fully up-to-date resource of its kind to appear in decades. This beautifully illustrated book describes how flowers use colors, shapes, and scent…
A Pragmatic Approach to Libertarian Free Will argues that the kind of free will required for moral responsibility and just desert is libertarian free will. It is a source of great controversy whether such a libertarian view is coherent and whether we should believe that we have …