Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: A Neuroeconomic Analysis of Personality and Learning Strategic Games

这一奖项资助了一篇结合了社会心理学、认知神经科学和行为经济学方法的博士论文。COPI试图测量人格特征的神经生物学，这些特征在策略性游戏背景下的适应性，以及这些特征与基于经验的学习和抽象推理的关系。该研究特别考察了潜在得失的相对显着性如何与特定的人格特征相互作用，以决定决策者在使用相对复杂的反向归纳心理过程中的成功。该项目将目前对人格和选择行为的神经关联的研究扩展到战略决策和抽象推理领域。该项目还为在战略决策的背景下将人格特征正式描述为具有特征的适应性特征奠定了基础。COPI计划制定和测试一个将个性特征作为独立变量的战略游戏中学习的经验模型。更广泛的影响包括培训研究生使用各种研究方法，这些方法对行为科学的跨学科研究非常重要。这项研究还可能有助于我们理解如何改进信息呈现给执行集体决策任务的个人的方式。

This award funds a doctoral dissertation that combines methods from social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and behavioral economics. The coPI seeks to measure the neurobiology of personality traits, the adaptive properties of these traits in the context of strategic games, and the relation of these traits to experience-based learning and abstract reasoning. In particular, the research investigates how the relative salience of potential gains and losses interact with specific personality traits to determine a decision-maker's success in using the relatively complicated mental process of backwards induction.The project extends current research on the neural correlates of personality and choice-behavior to the domain of strategic decision making and abstract reasoning. The project also provides a foundation for a formal description of personality traits as characteristic adaptive properties in the context of a strategic decision. The coPI plans to formulate and test an empirical model of learning in strategic games that includes personality traits as an independent variable.The broader impacts include training a graduate student in a wide variety of research methods that are important for interdisciplinary research in behavioral science. The research may also prove useful in helping us understand how to improve the ways information is presented to individuals who carry out collective decision tasks.