Encyclopedia of Psychology of Decision Making

In recent years there has been a great amount of research on the study of the neural mechanisms of economic decisions, a scientific field currently known as Neuroeconomics (Camerer, 2003). This has been promoted by the development and use of imaging techniques, particularly functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), for the exploration of brain activity. Neuroeconomics is an interdisciplinary field, as is decision making, in which the efforts of psychologists and economists join up with those of the neuroscientists, resulting in the participation of research specialists of different scientific fields in a given research.