NeuroRelay

This is the latest issue (Volume 6: Number 1) of the Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics (you can also read about previous issues: Number 1 & 2, Number 3, Number 4). The journal is quartely published by the Educational Publishing Foundation of the American Psychological Association and edited by Daniel Houser (George Mason University, USA) and Bernd Weber (University of Bonn, Germany). The Association for NeuroPsychoEconomics also organizes an annual event: NeuroPsychoEconomics Conference.

Usually, topics in this journal may include (but are not restricted to):

• Biological basis of economic preferences and personality (e.g., genetic, endocrinological, or neurophysiological)
• Interaction of environmental and biological factors in the formation of preferences, personality, and cognitive skills
• Application of neuroscienctific measures to improve our understanding of individual and group decision making
• The role of emotion and emotion regulation in economic decision making

This issue’s  research includes:
Predicting purchase decision: The role of hemispheric asymmetry over the frontal cortex (pages 1-13) (Purchase PDF)
Authors: Ravaja, Niklas; Somervuori, Outi; Salminen, Mikko

The joy of winning and the frustration of losing: A psychophysiological analysis of emotions in first-price sealed-bid auctions (pages 14-30) (Purchase PDF)
Authors: Astor, Philipp J.; Adam, Marc T. P.; Jähnig, Caroline; Seifert, Stefan

Envy can promote more equal division in alternating-offer bargaining (pages 31-41) (Purchase PDF)
Author: Kohler, Stefan

Age-related differences in discounting future gains and losses (pages 42-54) (Purchase PDF)
Authors: Halfmann, Kameko; Hedgcock, William; Denburg, Natalie L.

Anticipatory electrodermal activity and decision making in a computer poker-game (pages 55-70) (Purchase PDF)
Authors: Palomäki, Jussi; Kosunen, Ilkka; Kuikkaniemi, Kai; Yamabe, Tetsuo; Ravaja, Niklas

Earlier Issues: Volume 5, Number 1 & 2; Volume 5, Number 3, Volume 5, Number 4.