E-Dissertationen: Browsing E-Dissertationen by Author "Weber, Bernd"
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The aging decision maker: Investigating cognitive processes underlying decision making over the lifespan
Levin, Fedor (2021-11-04)Aging is a complex process that can lead to numerous changes in a person’s life. Previous research has described age-related changes in cognitive abilities that may adversely affect decision making processes. This dissertation ... -
Fairness - a multidimensional approach
Strang, Sabrina (2015-12-31)The extent to which humans have a preference for fairness is a puzzling phenomenon. Humans share food, goods, power, services and other resources fairly with their family, friends and even unrelated others. Further humans ... -
“I want it all and I want it now!”: Eine longitudinale Betrachtung des Zusammenhangs zwischen frühkindlicher Lebensführung und der Fähigkeit zum Belohnungsaufschub im Alter von 4 bis 6 Jahren
Grote, Xenia (2024-02-07)Wir leben in einer Zeit, in der die prompte Verfügbarkeit von Konsumgütern, Mahlzeiten, Unterhaltungsmedien und anderen Angeboten zu einer Kultur der unmittelbaren Gratifikation führt. Dem steht die Fähigkeit gegenüber, ... -
Neural and Cognitive Basis of Third-Party Altruistic Decision-Making and Its Modulators
Hu, Yang (2017-04-03)Human beings live in a world full of social connections. Favoring by the evolution, humans could survive the challenges of nature by not only maximizing their own interests (i.e., selfish motives) but also by considering ... -
The neural mechanisms underlying the impact of altruistic outcomes on the process of deception: from the perspectives of communicators and recipients
Yin, Lijun (2017-02-09)Investigating the process of deception is crucial for our understanding of lying behaviors. In this dissertation, three studies were performed to investigate: 1) the neural bases of lying and truth-telling in two different ... -
Neuroeconomic Foundations of Reward, Loss, and Risk Processing
Häusler, Alexander Niklas (2019-01-21)Together with neuroscientific inventions such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), economic and psychological developments in the study of human decision making have led to the formation of neuroeconomics. As ... -
Neuronal and behavioral correlates of the influence of contextual cues on value-based decision making = Die neuronalen und behavioralen Korrelate des Einflusses von kontextuellen Reizen auf das wertebasierte Entscheidungsverhalten: Kumulative Arbeit
Enax, Laura L. M. (2017-05-24)Value-based decisions are almost omnipresent in life. However, they are not very well understood. Previous research has shown that the decision-making process is dynamic, and can be influenced, for instance, by increasing ...