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

该奖项资助结合社会心理学、认知神经科学和行为经济学方法的博士论文。coPI旨在测量人格特征的神经生物学，这些特征在策略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。特别是，该研究调查了潜在收益和损失的相对显著性如何与特定的人格特质相互作用，从而决定决策者在使用相对复杂的心理过程逆向归纳时是否成功。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。该项目还为正式描述人格特征作为战略决策背景下的特征适应性属性提供了基础。coPI计划制定和测试一个策略游戏中学习的经验模型，其中包括个性特征作为一个独立变量。更广泛的影响包括培养研究生的各种研究方法，这对行为科学的跨学科研究很重要。这项研究也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.