... predicted that losses should loom larger than gains, at least when the stakes are high, I decided to take on an even more complicated phenomenon in psychology and economics: risk aversion.
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... an "improver". By contrast, children who are not improving their performance, or who are regressing, use gaze aversion less often.
Keeping an eye on gaze aversion is especially valuable for teachers ...
... of preferred products. "Our findings provide support for one mechanism involving increased aversion to loss of possessions during selling and illustrate that neuroscience methods can advance economic ...
... of a diversified portfolio.
When making choices in isolation many of the subjects were loss averse. That is, they were more concerned about avoiding financial losses than in making financial gains. ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Even the most alluring scent can turn repellant when the smell is too strong, but how that switch between attraction and aversion gets flipped in the brain was unknown.
... by Wiley-Blackwell, used data from the popular television game show, 'Deal or No Deal?', to explore risk aversion and economic decision-making behaviors of individuals in a high stake setting.
... chose to preserve equity at the expense of efficiency, Hsu said. “They were all quite inequity averse.” The findings support other studies that show that most people are fairly intolerant of inequity. ...
... has discovered for the first time that the important developmental switch from food attraction to aversion in the fruit fly larva is controlled by a timing mechanism in the brain and its sensory ...
... predator as a threat was confirmed by our control experiments, where fish showed a strong aversion to the predator model. Despite this, solitary test fish were prepared to follow a replica leader ...
... for understanding mental disorders where deficits in social behavior are observed. Betrayal aversion, for example, could serve as a precursor to social phobia, a disorder characterized by aversion to ...
... . The gold end of the wire is water-loving, or hydrophilic, while the carbon end is water-averse, or hydrophobic. The thin, water-tight sacs that surround all living cells are formed by interlocking ...
Researchers are putting women's lives at risk by being too cautious about trialling drugs during pregnancy, say Nicholas J. White and colleagues.
... is often more important to subjective well being than the support itself.
As Cong explains: "Aversion to household support from daughters and sons was sufficiently strong among older mothers and ...
... to manipulate these receptors to control whether the nicotine is processed as rewarding or aversive.
"Importantly, our findings may explain an individual's vulnerability to nicotine addiction, and ...
... University and Peter Shizgal, PhD, Concordia University, Montreal, to show how the brain's reward/aversion circuitry followed the principles of what is called prospect theory when responding to the ...
