Chapter 14 Outline

  • Introduction
  • Introductory Box: Addiction to Gambling
  • Decision Making: From Rational Choice to Behavioral Economics
  • Reward and Utility
    • Dopamine: Pleasure or motivation?
    • Reward prediction error
    • Responses to negative outcomes
  • Box 14A: Learning Values and Forming Habits
  • Uncertainty: Risk, Ambiguity, and Delay
    • Risk and ambiguity
    • Delay: Discounting future rewards
  • Social Context
    • Social rewards
    • Social cooperation
    • Social punishment
  • Integration: Combining and Comparing Information to Reach a Decision
    • Perceptual decision making
    • Value-based decision making
  • Box 14B: Modeling Simple Decisions
  • Heuristics in Decision Making
  • Future Directions
  • Box 14C: Neuromarketing
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