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Paul Zak—Director of Claremont’s Center for Neuroeconomic Studies—has been awarded nearly $1.5 million in a grant from the John Templeton Foundation to support his project, “Oxytocin and the Neurobiology of Human Virtues: Resilience, Generosity, and Compassion.” The funding was one of the largest grants this year at Claremont Graduate University...
Published Tuesday, June 19, 2007
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About the Center
Director
Paul J. Zak, Ph.D.
The Center for Neuroeconomics Studies (CNS) investigates the neurophysiology of economic decisions. Its researchers draw on economic theory, experimental economics, neuroscience, endocrinology, and psychology to develop a comprehensive understanding of human decisions.
To learn more about current CNS projects, media notices, the neuroeconomics reading list, CNS Researchers, and much more, visit their website at http://www.neuroeconomicstudies.org/.
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New brain imaging technologies have motivated neuroeconomic studies of the internal order of the mind and its links with the spectrum of human decisions from choice among fixed gambles to choice mediated by market and other institutional rules. We are only at the beginning of the enterprise, but its promise suggests a fundamental change in how we think, observe, and model decision in all its contexts.
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Vernon Smith
2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics, in his Nobel lecture "Constructivist and Ecological Rationality in Economics"
Currently Professor of Economics and Law at GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
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