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How Beliefs about Self-creation Inflate Value in the Human Brain

By: Raphael Koster, Tali Sharot, Rachel Yuan, Benedetto De Martino, Michael I. Norton and Raymond J. Dolan

Humans have a tendency to overvalue their own ideas and creations. Understanding how these errors in judgement emerge is important for explaining suboptimal decisions, as when individuals and groups choose self-created alternatives over superior or equal ones. We show... View Details

Keywords: fMRI; Amygdala; Hippocampus; Medial Temporal Lobe; Caudate Nucleus; Values and Beliefs

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Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach

This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details

01 Oct 2000
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Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices

brain called the amygdala. This area processes sensory stimulation before it reaches the conscious part of the brain. If the amygdala perceives a threat, it boosts the production of adrenaline, increasing the heart rate and creating other... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)

25 Feb 2020
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Teachable Moments

another student, courage may mean to be quiet when you know you have the answer, yet you know that another student needs airtime. My hope is that all students experience the amygdala hijacking their emotions and thoughts and feelings. I... View Details

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