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Title Midbrain mutiny [electronic resource] : the picoeconomics and neuroeconomics of disordered gambling : economic theory and cognitive science / Don Ross ... [et al.].

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 301 p. : ill.
Note "A Bradford book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-289) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Compulsive gambling.
Motivation (Psychology)
Reward (Psychology)
Choice (Psychology)
Neuroeconomics.
Economics.
Cognitive science.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Ross, Don, 1962-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780262182652 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262182653 (hardcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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