Rationality and Emotions (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society series B)

The world's longest running science journal. Contents......Page 3 Rationality and emotions......Page 4 References......Page 7 Introduction......Page 9 Counterwishful thinking and counteradptive preference formation......Page 10 Transmutations......Page 11 References......Page 14 Introduction......Page 15 Background......Page 16 Self-deception as self-signalling......Page 17 Two modes of self-deception......Page 19 Procedure......Page 20 Predictions......Page 21 Results......Page 22 What psychological benefits are obtained for the reduction in objective accuracy?......Page 23 Discussion......Page 24 Concluding remarks......Page 25 References......Page 26 Outline of the paper......Page 29 Regret and disappointment......Page 30 Adaptive Learning and Counterfactual Evaluation......Page 31 Regret learning......Page 32 The attribution problem......Page 33 References......Page 34 Testing the regret explanation of allaisian behaviour......Page 36 Regrets as error signals and/or decision weights......Page 38 Decision types and regret......Page 41 References......Page 43 A short history of the research on emotions and decision-making......Page 45 Experimental evidence on emotions......Page 46 Two dual mixed emotions: towards an emotional rationality......Page 49 Emotional explanation of experimental 'biases'......Page 52 Conclusion......Page 53 References......Page 54 Introduction......Page 56 Neurobiology on time and emotions......Page 57 Timeless basic emotions......Page 58 Intimate time, anticipation of future events and emotions......Page 59 Sequence of actions and 'time-reversal'......Page 60 A numerical example of negative time preference......Page 62 References......Page 64 Introduction......Page 66 Economic models of herding incorporate narrow behavioural assumptions......Page 67 Psychology broadens behavioural assumptions and captures personality, emotion and mood......Page 68 Sociological forces create interdependence and encourage herding......Page 69 Evolutionary biology can explain the evolution of herding instincts......Page 70 Interacting brain systems explain herding in neuroeconomic analyses......Page 71 References......Page 73 Embodied economics: how bodily information shapes the social coordination dynamics of decision-making......Page 76 Mental images: a first step towards considering bodily factors in economics......Page 77 On metaphors, categorization and embodied rationality......Page 78 Hayek and the body: epistemological foundations for social neuroscience......Page 79 Visceral factors and social neuroeconomics......Page 80 On mimicry, prosocial behaviour and giving......Page 81 Embodied (neuro)economics......Page 82 Conclusion......Page 83 References......Page 84 Setting the background of empathy in economics......Page 87 How can we access and understand the minds of others?......Page 90 The self-other distinction......Page 91 Selfish or selfless?......Page 92 The neuroeconomics of mind reading and empathy......Page 93 Stability of types......Page 94 Conclusion......Page 97 References......Page 99 Introduction......Page 102 The cognitive approach......Page 103 Summary......Page 104 Neurochemical studies......Page 105 Functional neuroimaging studies......Page 106 Anomalous recruitment of the brain reward system during cognitive distortions......Page 107 References......Page 110 Testosterone and the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis......Page 114 Steroid receptors: mechanism of action of steroid hormones......Page 116 Androgens, glucocorticoids and brain function......Page 117 Testosterone and risk-taking......Page 118 Steroids and impaired risk-taking......Page 121 Conclusion......Page 122 References......Page 123