Posts tagged with: Fletcher
Cortisol shifts financial risk preferences. (2014).
"High levels of the stress hormone cortisol may contribute to the risk aversion and 'irrational pessimism' found among bankers and fund managers during financial crises Narayanan Kandasamy, Andrew S....
Conference 2012: programme, abstracts and bios
Materials from our conference 'The intoxication of power: From neurosciences to hubris in healthcare and public life' are now available. The event, held on 9 October 2012, was organised by the Daedalus Trust in...
Conference 2012 notes: Session 2
This set features notes from the following presentations to session 2 (Hubris and neuroscience) of our conference 'The Intoxication of power: From Neurosciences to hubris in healthcare and public life'....
Conference 2012: Paul Fletcher – From intoxication to addiction: Neurobiological substrates for hubris?
"The transition from intoxication to addiction is associated with a preoccupation with the negative effects of withdrawal from the source of addiction (as opposed to the satisfaction of a perceived...
Prof Paul Fletcher (2011): directions for neuroscientific research
The challenge now is to begin to understand how lower level mental processes manifest themselves in higher order decisions and behaviour, particularly sub-optimal behaviours Paul Fletcher, Bernard Wolfe Professor of...