Aging and Decision Making: Empirical and Applied Perspectives

Aging and Decision Making: Empirical and Applied Perspectives reviews theoretical, empirical, and applied perspectives relevant to understanding the impact of aging on decision making. It summarizes what we know, integrates findings across multiple perspectives, and sets a targeted agenda for future research, all in an effort to meet the needs of practitioners, researchers, and students interested in this important topic.  The text explores the topic of aging and decision making by reviewing both basic and applied research conducted using a variety of state-of-the-art methods. With a primary focus on behavioral and behavioral neuroscience perspectives, it focuses on decision processes at the level of the individual. Divided into four dominant approaches that characterize the current state of decision-making science and aging neuroscienceExplores the impact of aging on the linkages between cortical structures/functions and the behavioral indices of decision-makingExamines the themes associated with behavioral approaches that attempt integrations of methods, models, and theories of general decision-making with those derived from the study of agingDetails the changes in underlying competencies in later life and the two prevailing themes that have emerged-one, the general individual differences perspective, and two, a more clinical focus INDICE: Section 1: Neuroscience Chapter 1: General Age-Related Neurological Changes and Their Implications for Decision-Making Chapter 2: Neural Basis of Emotion Across the Life-Span Chapter 3: Age and Neuroeconomics Chapter 4: The Role of Executive Control Section 2: Behavioral Mechanisms Chapter 5: Affective and Motivational Influences Chapter 6: Time-Based Influences Chapter 7: Heuristic-Use and Adaptive Decision-Making Chapter 8: Decision-Making Under Risk and Uncertainty Section 3: Competence/General Models Chapter 9: Decision-Making Competency Relating to Legal Factors Chapter 10: Normative Approach to Decision-Making Competence Chapter 11: Decision Making Competence Relating to Health and Guardianship Chapter 12: Individual Differences/Decision-Making Competence Chapter 13: Numeracy and Risk Perception Section 4: Applied Perspectives Chapter 14: Collaborative/Shared Decision-Making Chapter 15: Financial Decision-Making in Real-World Contexts Chapter 16: Decision-Making within Health Related Contexts Chapter 17: Competence and Decision-Making Regarding Medical Plans Chapter 18: Decision-Making in Consumer Contexts

• ISBN: 978-0-12-417148-0
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 13/05/2015
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés