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Midbrain mutiny : the picoeconomics and neuroeconomics of disordered gambling : economic theory and cognitive science / Don Ross ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Compulsive gambling.
- Motivation (Psychology).
- Reward (Psychology).
- Choice (Psychology).
- Neuroeconomics.
- Economics.
- Cognitive science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An analysis of how economic theories can be used to understand disordered and pathological gambling that calls on empirical evidence about behavior and the brain and argues that addictive gambling is the basic form of all addiction.
- Contents:
- Is there such a thing as addiction?
- Gambling in scientific focus
- Picoeconomics, impulsive consumption, and disordered gambling
- Behavioral and psychological investigations of disordered gambling
- The neuroeconomics of addiction
- Addictive gambling as the basic form of addiction
- Clinical evidence and implications
- The microexplanation of disordered gambling.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- "A Bradford book."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-289) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-26445-5
- 1-282-09946-9
- 9786612099465
- 0-262-28264-X
- 1-4356-3525-6
- OCLC:
- 219717092
- Publisher Number:
- 9786612099465
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