Short Courses in Neuroeconomics and Social Neuroscience

项目摘要/摘要 一生中做出的许多经济和社会决定都会对老年的健康结果产生重大影响。 为了解决这些问题，近年来出现了两个多学科领域的寿命研究： 神经经济学和社会神经科学。尽管这些领域前景看好，但不幸的是， 个别机构提供真正多学科的神经经济学或社会经济学培训机会 神经科学。拟议的活动将通过向广泛的学生提供研讨会和暑期学校来解决这个问题。 全国各地初级科学家的观众。神经经济学的目标是更好地理解人类 做决定。神经经济学使用经济学方法来理解决策行为，这种行为可以 潜在的泛化不仅是为了财务福祉的最大化，也是为了精神和身体的最大化 健康。社会神经科学整合了心理学和神经科学的多个领域，以更好地理解 人类的社会行为。社会神经科学方法确定了优化社会、情感和 身体健康和幸福。拟议的培训活动的主要目标是为与会者提供 具有广泛的知识和技能基础，来自神经经济学和社会经济学的许多子领域 神经科学。拟议活动的另一个目标是开始将神经经济学和社会经济学结合在一起 神经科学界寻求一种更综合的方法。社会神经科学与神经经济学 在很大程度上是作为单独的领域发展起来的，有单独的会议，之间几乎没有相互干扰 社区，尽管在研究兴趣上有很大的重叠(例如，情感和 社会决策、学习和评估)。为了更好地了解预测因素和战略 优化老年健康和福祉，科学寿命研究将需要继续进一步 整合来自多个学科的方法、证据和理论，给定多个维度 对长期健康和福祉的贡献。我们预计，这里提出的新颖的培训活动将 增加在多个领域的交叉领域有效工作的未来科学家的数量，这将 促进创造力，促进跨领域交流，引入新的方法和应用 其他领域的方法，并促进更具创造性的科学。

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT Many financial and social decisions made throughout life can powerfully influence health outcomes in old age. To address these issues, two multidisciplinary areas of life-span research have emerged in recent years: neuroeconomics and social neuroscience. Despite the promise of these areas, unfortunately it remains rare for individual institutions to provide truly multidisciplinary training opportunities in either neuroeconomics or social neuroscience. The proposed activities will address this by offering workshops and summer schools to a broad audience of junior scientists all over the country. The goal of neuroeconomics is to better understand human decision making. Neuroeconomics uses an economic approach to understanding decision behavior that can potentially be generalized not only for the maximization of financial well being but also mental and physical health. Social neuroscience integrates multiple areas of psychology and neuroscience to better understand human social behavior. The social neuroscience approach identifies ways to optimize social, emotional, and physical health and well being. The primary goal of the proposed training activities is to provide the attendees with a broad base of knowledge and skills from the many subfields within neuroeconomics and social neuroscience. Another goal of the proposed events is to begin to bring together the neuroeconomics and social neuroscience communities for an even more integrative approach. Social neuroscience and neuroeconomics have largely grown up as separate fields, with separate conferences and very little cross-talk between communities despite a great deal of overlap in research interests (e.g., neural mechanisms of affective and social decision making, learning and valuation). To better understand the predictors of and strategies for optimizing health and well being in old age, scientific life-span research will need to continue to further integrate approaches, evidence, and theories from multiple disciplines given the multi-dimensional contributions to long-term health and well being. We expect that the novel training activities proposed here will increase the number of future scientists effectively working at the intersection of multiple fields which will promote creativity, facilitate communication across areas, introduce novel applications of methods and approaches to other areas, and promote more creative science.