Social neuroeconomics : mechanistic integration of the neurosciences and the social sciences / edited by Jens Harbecke and Carsten Herrmann-Pillath.

"Neuroeconomics has emerged as a paradigmatic field where neuroscience and the social sciences are integrated in one analytical and empirical approach. However, the different disciplines involved often only relate to each other via the shared object of research, and less through the constructing of precise models of integrative mechanisms. Social Neuroeconomics explores the potential of philosophical and methodological reflections in the neurosciences and the social sciences to inform those efforts at cross-disciplinary integration, with a special focus on recent contributions to mechanistic explanations. The collected essays are drawn from the fields of neuroscience, psychology, economics, sociology and philosophy, and examine the ways and methods of constructing unified conceptual frameworks that can guide empirical work and hypothesis building. This is demonstrated in a range of applications, particularly regarding finance and consumer behavior. The concept of the 'social brain' is also explored; a multi-level framework in which complex analytical categories such as emotions or socially mediated cognitive processes connect neuronal and social phenomena in specific mechanisms that generate behavior. This book addresses a wide audience across the various disciplines, reaching from the neurosciences to the social sciences and philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction / Jens Harbecke and Carsten Herrmann-Pillath -- Part 1: Mechanistic frames for cross-disciplinary integration in social neuroeconomics. Neuroeconomics as a case of mechanistic integration / Caterina Marchionni and Jack Vromen -- Integrating with Mechanisms: Neuroscience and Social Science / Saúl Pérez-González -- Mechanistic Integration of Social Sciences and Neurosciences: Context and Causality in Social Neuroeconomics / Carsten Herrmann-Pillath -- Part 2: Mechanistic methodology and methods in social neuroeconomics. Neuroeconomics of Cooperation Heuristics: The Role of Incentives, Social Cues, and Hormones / Carolyn Declerck -- Constitutive Inference and Research Methods in Social Neuroeconomics / Jens Harbecke -- Part 3: The social neuroeconomics of individual behaviour in context. Akrasia and addiction. Neurophilosophy and psychological mechanisms / Reinout W. Wiers, Simon van Gaal and Mike E. Le Pelley -- Social ecology of normative reasoning / Renne Pesonen -- Economics, Social Neuroscience, and Mindshaping / Don Ross and Wynn Stirling -- Part 4: Social neuroeconomics, institutions and interventions. The Application of Descriptive Theories of Human Cognition and Decision Making in Policy Making and Regulation / Mareike Kuehne -- Neuroscience of autonomy and paternalistic policies / Jaakko Kuorikoski, Samuli Reijula and Susanne Uusitalo -- Social updating: An intuitionist approach to explaining decision-making under risk and uncertainty / Lea Diederichsen -- Scopic systems and decision-making in financial markets / Alex Preda and Roland Gemayel.

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