Prefrontal cortex dysfunction and income: a study in neuroeconomics
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Marcello Spinella1, David Lester, Bijou Yang
1The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, NJ 08240-0195, USA.
Abstract:
In four samples of adults, individual income was negatively associated with a measure of prefrontal cortex dysfunction even after implementing controls for age, sex, and education. The small association was stronger for men than for women. These results provide support for a neuroeconomic approach to the study of micro-economic variables.
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