Welcome to the Center
The Center for the Study of Neuroeconomics(CSN) at George Mason University is a research center and laboratory dedicated to the experimental study of how emergent mental computations in the brain interact with the emergent computations of institutions to produce legal, political, and economic order. Learn more about our research here. For a brief overview of Neuroeconomics download the following paper from the Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science:
Kevin McCabe, 2003, "Neuroeconomics," Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Lynn Nadel (ed-in chief), Nature Publishing Group, Macmillan Publishing, New York, pp. 294-298. PDF
You can also download our Recent Publications:
Berg, Joyce, John Dickhaut, and Kevin McCabe, "Risk Preference Instability Across Institutions: A Dilemma," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, (102)11, 2005, pp. 4209-4214. PDF
Houser, Daniel, Antoine Bechara, Michael Keane, Kevin McCabe, and Vernon Smith, "Identifying Individual Differences: An Algorithm With Application to Phineas Gage," Games and Economic Behavior, 52, 2005, pp. 373-385. PDF
View a slideshow on the arrival of our Allegra T3 scanner:

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