NU Neuroeconomics, Social, Cultural and Affective Neuroscience Workshop Fall 2009 Wednesdays, 5:00-6:00pm Swift Hall 231, Evanston Campus

Goals:

The purpose of this workshop is to foster interdisciplinary research at Northwestern that adopts a neurobiological approach to decision-making, including the social, cultural, economic and affective processes underlying decision-making and related behavior. Additionally, the workshop aims to highlight the implications of this interdisciplinary research for global health and policy challenges (e.g., addiction, education, intergroup conflict resolution, justice, mental health stigma, poverty, prejudice, socioeconomic inequity).

Student Organizing Committee:

Bobby Cheon – Psychology (bobbycheon2012@u.northwestern.edu)

Vani Mathur -Psychology (v-mathur@northwestern.edu)

Katie Rotella – Psychology (katierotella2013@u.northwestern.edu)

Note: If you are interested in presenting or attending this group meeting, please contact the student organizers.

Faculty Sponsors:

Dr. Ryan Brown – Asst Prof, Human Development and Social Policy

Dr. Joan Y. Chiao – Asst Prof, Psychology

Dr. Camelia M. Kuhnen – Asst Prof, Finance

Dr. Jennifer Richeson – Assoc Prof, Psychology

Get Involved:

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Schedule of Presentations:

Date	Topic	Papers	Speakers
09/23/2009	TBA
9/25-9/27	Society for Neuroeconomics Conference	For more information: http://www.neuroeconomics.org/conference, held at the Hotel Orrington in Evanston
10/07/2009	Culture and the Visual Brain		Joshua Goh
10/21/2009	Cancelled
11/04/2009	How Does the Human Brain Deal with Uncertainty?	Kording & Wolpert (2004). Bayesian integration in sensorimotor learning. Nature, 427, 244-247. Knill & Pouget (2004). The Bayesian brain: the role of uncertainty in neural coding and computation. Trends in Neuroscience, 427, 712-719.	Iris Vilares
11/18/2009	Exposure to Subtle Bias and Inequity Aversion	Knoch & Fehr. (2006). Diminishing reciprocal fairness by disrupting the right prefrontal cortex. Science, 314, 829-832.	Jennifer Richeson
12/02/2009	TBA
12/16/2009	TBA
8/2/2010-8/5/2010	The Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics Annual Conference. For more information: http://sabe2010.org	One of the conference themes is behavioral economics and neuroscience. All interested participants are encouraged to submit a proposal for a single paper and/or a session.

Suggested Reading:

Articles discussed at previous meetings:

2008-2009

• Schmitz, N., Rubia, K., van Amelsvoort, T., Daly, E., Smith, A., & Murphy, D.G.M. (2008). Neural correlates of reward in autism. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 192, 19-24.
• Allman, J.M., Watson, K.K., Tetreault, N.A., & Hakeem, A.Y. (2005). Intuition and autism: a possible role for Von Economo neurons. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 367-373.
• Walter, H., Abler, B., Ciaramidaro, A., & Erk, S. (2005). Motivating forces of human actions: Neuroimaging reward and social interaction. Brain Research Bull., 67, 368-381.
• Krajbich, I., Adolphs, R., Tranel, D., Denburg, N.L., & Camerer, C.F. (2009). Economic games quantify diminished sense of guilt in patients with damage to the prefrontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 2188- 2192.
• Takahashi, H., Kato, M., Matsuura, M., Mobbs, D., Suhara, T., & Okubo, Y. (2009). When your gain is my pain and your pain is my gain: Neural correlates of envy and schadenfreude. Science, 323, 937- 939.
• Shamay-Tsoory, S.G., Tibi-Elhanany, Y., & Aharon-Peretz, J. (2007). The green-eyed monster and malicious joy: the neuroanatomical bases of envy and gloating (schadenfreude). Brain, 130, 1663-1678.
• Rand, D.G., Pfeiffer, T., Dreber, A., Sheketoff, R.W., Wernerfelt, N.C., & Benkler, Y. (2009). Dynamic remodeling of in-group bias during the 2008 presidential election.  PNAS.
• Westen, D., Blagov, P.S., Harenski, K., Kilst, C., & Hamann, S. (2006).  Neural bases of motivated reasoning: An fMRI study of emotional constraints on partisan political judgment in the 2004 U.S. presidential election.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 1947-1958.
• Harpending, H. & Cochran, G. (2002). In our genes. PNAS, 99, 10-12. 
• Eisenberg, D.T.A., Campbell, B., Gray, P.B., & Sorenson, M.D. (2008). Dopamine receptor genetic polymorphisms and body composition in undernourished pastoralists: An exploration of nutrition indices among nomadic and recently settled Ariaal men of northern Kenya. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 8.
• Belsky, J., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M.J., & van IJzendoorn, M.H. (2007). For better and for worse: Differential susceptibility to environmental influences. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 300-304.
• Lerner, J. S., Gonzalez, R. M., Dahl, R. E., Hariri, A. R., & Taylor, S. E. (2007). Facial expressions of emotion reveal neuroendocrine and cardiovascular stress responses. Biological Psychiatry, 61, 253-260.
• Lerner, J. S., & Tiedens, L. Z. (2006, Apr). Portrait of The Angry Decision Maker: How Appraisal Tendencies Shape Anger's Influence on Cognition. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. Special Issue: The Role of Affect in Decision Making, 19(2), 115-137.
• Keltner, D., Gruenfeld, D. H., & Anderson, C. (2003, Apr). Power, approach, and inhibition. Psychol Rev, 110(2), 265-284.
• Maloney, Trommershäuser, & Landy. Questions Without Words: A Comparison Between Decision Making Under Risk and Movement Planning Under Risk.
• Hein, G., & Singer, T. (in press). I feel how you feel but not always: The empathic brain and its modulation.Current Opinion in Neurobiology.
• Hsu, M., Anen, C., Quartz, S.R. (2008). The Right and the Good: Distributive Justice and Neural Encoding of Equity and Efficiency. Science, 320 (5879):1092-5.
• Tabibnia, G., Satpute, A.B., Lieberman, M.D. (2008). The sunny side of fairness.  Psychological Science, 19(4), 339-347.
• Knafo et al (2008). Individual differences in allocation of funds in the dictator game associated with length of the arginine vasopressin 1a receptor RS3 promoter region and correlation between RS3 length and hippocampal mRNA,Genes, Brain and Behavior, 7: 266-275.

2007-2008

· Charness, G. and Levin, D. (2005). When optimal choices feel wrong: A laboratory study of bayesian updating, complexity, and affect, American Economic Review, 25(4), 1300-1309.

• Pessiglione, M., Seymour, B., Flandin, G., Dolan, R.J., Frith, C.D. (2006). Dopamine-dependent prediction errors underpin reward-seeking behaviour in humans, Nature, 442, 1042-1045.
• Sutton, R.S. and Barto, A.G. (1998).  Reinforcement learning: An introduction, MIT Press.
• Fliessbach, K., Weber, B., Trautner, P., Dohmen, T., Sunde, U., Elger, C.E,  Falk, A. Social comparison affects reward-related brain activity in the human ventral striatum, Science, 318, 1305-1308
• Mendes, W., Blascovich, J., Major, B., Seery, M. (2001). Challenge and threat responses during downward and upward social comparisons, European Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 31 (5) , 477 – 497
• Huberman, B., Loch, C. and Önculer, A. (2004) Status as a valued resource, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 1, 103-114
• Ball, S., Eckel, C., Grossman, P., Zame, W. (2001). Status in markets, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 116, No. 1, 161-188
• Zizzo, D. (2002) Between utility and cognition: the neurobiology of relative position, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 48, 71–91
• Delgado, M.R., Frank, R.H.,  Phelps, E.A. (2005) Perceptions of moral character modulate the neural systems of reward during the trust game, Nature Neuroscience 8, 1611 – 1618
• Bohnet, I. and Zeckhauser, R. (2004). Trust, risk and betrayal. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 55: 467-484.
• Seymour, B., Singer, T., & Dolan, R. (2007). The neurobiology of punishment. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 8, 300-311.
• Moll J, Krueger F, Zahn R, Pardini M, de Oliveira-Souza R, Grafman J. (2006). Human fronto-mesolimbic networks guide decisions about charitable donation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103(42):15623-8.
• Harbaugh WT, Mayr U, Burghart DR.(2007). Neural responses to taxation and voluntary giving reveal motives for charitable donations.  Science 316(5831):1622-5.
• Bernhard, H., Fischbacher, U., Fehr, E., 2006. Parochial altruism in humans. Nature 442, 912-915.
• Goette, L., Huffman, D., Meier, S., 2006. The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups. American Economic Review 96, 212-216.
• Fehr, E. and Camerer, C. , 2007. Social neuroeconomics: the neural circuitry of social preferences. Forthcoming, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
• Knoch, D. and Fehr, E., 2007. Resisting the Power of Temptations - The Right Prefrontal Cortex and Self-Control. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1104: 123–134
• Camerer, C., Loewenstein, G. and Prelec, D. (2005) How neuroscience can inform economics Journal of Economic Literature , XLIII, 9-64
• Gul, F. and Pesendorfer, W. (2005) The case for mindless economics, Working paper, Princeton University
• Kuhnen, C. (2007) On Money, Risk and the Brain, Working paper.
• Bechara, A., Damasio, H., Tranel, D. and Damasio, A. (1997): Deciding advantageously before knowing the advantageous strategy. Science, 275, 1293-1295
• Knutson, B.,  Rick, S. , Wimmer, G. E., Prelec, D. and Loewenstein, G. (2007). Neural predictors of purchases. Neuron, 53, 147-156
• Knutson, B., Taylor, J., Kaufman, M., Peterson, R. and Glover, G. (2005). Distributed neural representation of expected value. Journal of Neuroscience, 25, 4806-4812
• Kuhnen, C. M. and Knutson, B. (2005). The neural basis of financial risk taking. Neuron, 47, 763-770
• Lo, A. and Repin, D. V. (2002). The psychophysiology of real-time financial risk processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14, 323-339
• Preuschoff, K. and Bossaerts, P. and Quartz, S. (2006). Neural differentiation of expected reward and risk in human subcortical structures. Neuron, 51, 381-390
• Shiv, B., Loewenstein, G. , Bechara, A., Damasio, H. and Damasio, A. (2005). Investment behavior and the negative side of emotion. Psychological Science 16(6), 593-616
• De Martino, B.,  Kumaran, D., Seymour, B. and Dolan, R. (2006). Frames, biases and rational decision-making in the human brain. Science, 313, 684-687
• Tom, S., Fox, C. R., Trepel, C., Poldrack, R. A. (2007). The neural basis of loss-aversion in decision-making under risk. Science, 315, 515-518.
• Fehr, E., Fischbacher, U. and Kosfeld, M. (2005). Neuroeconomic Foundations of Trust and Social Preferences, Forthcoming in the American Economic Review.
• Kosfeld, M., Heinrichs, M., Zak, P. J., Fischbacher, U. and Fehr, E. (2005). Oxytocin Increases Trust in Humans, Nature, 435, 673-676
• de Quervain, D., Fischbacher, U., Treyer, V., Schellhammer, M.,  Schnyder, U., Buck, A., Fehr, E. (2004) The Neural Basis of Altruistic Punishment, Science, 305,1254-1258
• Knoch, D., Pascual-Leone, A.,  Meyer, K., Treyer V. and Fehr, E. (2006). Diminishing Reciprocal Fairness by Disrupting thr Right Prefrontal Cortex, Science, 314, 912-915
• Camerer, C. and Fehr, E. (2006).  When Does 'Economic Man' Dominate Social Behavior?. Science, Vol. 311, 6
• Singer, T. and Fehr, E. (2005). The Neuroeconomics of Mind Reading and Empathy, AEA Papers and Proceeding, Vol. 95, 2
• Levinson, J.D. and Peng, K. (2006). Valuing Cultural Differences in Behavioral Economics, Working paper
• McClure, S. M., Laibson, D. I., Loewenstein, G., Cohen, J. D. Separate Neural Systems Value Immediate and Delayed Monetary Rewards, Science, 306, 503-507, 2004
• Frederick, S., Loewenstein, G. and O’Donoghue, T. Time discounting and time preference: A critical review, Journal of Economic Literature, 40, 351-401, 2002
• Mischel, W., Shoda, Y., and Rodriguez, M. L. Delay of gratification in children. Science, 244, 933-938, 1989
• Knutson, B.,  Rick, S. , Wimmer, G. E., Prelec, D. and Loewenstein, G. (2007). Neural predictors of purchases. Neuron, 53, 147-156
• McClure, S.M., Li, J., Tomlin, D., Cypert, K.S., Montague, L.M., and Montague, P.R. (2004). Neural correlates of behavioral preference for culturally familiar drinks. Neuron 44, 379–387
• Erk, S., Spitzer, M., Wunderlich, A. P., Galley, L., Walter, H. (2002). Cultural objects modulate reward circuitry. Neuroreport. 13(18):2499-2503

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