Recent Publications

Krueger F, Parasuraman R, Moody L, Twieg P, de Visser E, McCabe K, O'Hara, M, Lee M. Oxytocin selectively increases perceptions of harm for victims but not the desire to punish offenders of criminal offenses. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. in press.

Dickhaut, J., Basu, S., McCabe, K. & Waymire, G. Neuroaccounting: Consilience between the biologically evolved brain and culturally evolved accounting principles. Accounting Horizons 2011: 24(2): 221-255.

Krueger F, Landgraf S, van der Meer E, Deshpande G, Hu X. Effective connectivity of the multiplication network: A functional MRI and multivariate Granger causality mapping study. Human Brain Mapping 2010 Aug 16; [Epub ahead of print].

Phan, K., Sripada, C., Angstadt, M. & McCabe, K. Reputation for reciprocity engages the brain reward center. Proceedings for the National Academy of Science 2011: 107(29):13099-13104

 

 

Mind & Brain Feed

 

Welcome to the Center for the Study of Neuroeconomics

The Center for the Study of Neuroeconomics (CSN) was started in 2004 by Dr. Kevin McCabe as a joint venture of GMU's School of Law, the Department of Economics, the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, the Mercatus Center and the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science.  The center works closely with the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE).

The mission of the CSN is to develop, and use, experimental methods from both, experimental economics and the cognitive neurosciences, to design experiments that help us to better understand how neural activity results in an emergent cognitive capacity for economic behavior.

In supporting this mission, the center runs the sixteen subject Behavioral Neuroeconomics Lab at the Krasnow Institute which is adjacent to the MR scanner so as to facilitate fMRI experiments to be run in conjunction with behavioral economic experiments.

Our approach is truly interdisciplinary in that we involve researchers across different fields in every aspect of our research program. The heart of our approach is the methodology of experimental economics pioneered by Vernon Smith. We are building on the program of experimental economics by adding virtual worlds and fMRI studies as well as importing more traditional methods of cognitive psychology into our projects.

 

 

 

"New brain imaging technologies have motivated neuroeconomic studies of the internal order of the mind and its links with the spectrum of human decisions ... its promise suggests a fundamental change in how we think, observe, and model decision in all its contexts."

Vernon Smith, 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics, in his Nobel lecture "Constructivist and Ecological Rationality in  Economics."

 

 

 

 
 
 
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