# Short Courses in Neuroeconomics and Social Neuroscience

> **NIH NIH R25** · DUKE UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $120,171

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT
Many financial and social decisions made throughout life can powerfully influence health outcomes in old age.
To address these issues, two multidisciplinary areas of life-span research have emerged in recent years:
neuroeconomics and social neuroscience. Despite the promise of these areas, unfortunately it remains rare for
individual institutions to provide truly multidisciplinary training opportunities in either neuroeconomics or social
neuroscience. The proposed activities will address this by offering workshops and summer schools to a broad
audience of junior scientists all over the country. The goal of neuroeconomics is to better understand human
decision making. Neuroeconomics uses an economic approach to understanding decision behavior that can
potentially be generalized not only for the maximization of financial well being but also mental and physical
health. Social neuroscience integrates multiple areas of psychology and neuroscience to better understand
human social behavior. The social neuroscience approach identifies ways to optimize social, emotional, and
physical health and well being. The primary goal of the proposed training activities is to provide the attendees
with a broad base of knowledge and skills from the many subfields within neuroeconomics and social
neuroscience. Another goal of the proposed events is to begin to bring together the neuroeconomics and social
neuroscience communities for an even more integrative approach. Social neuroscience and neuroeconomics
have largely grown up as separate fields, with separate conferences and very little cross-talk between
communities despite a great deal of overlap in research interests (e.g., neural mechanisms of affective and
social decision making, learning and valuation). To better understand the predictors of and strategies for
optimizing health and well being in old age, scientific life-span research will need to continue to further
integrate approaches, evidence, and theories from multiple disciplines given the multi-dimensional
contributions to long-term health and well being. We expect that the novel training activities proposed here will
increase the number of future scientists effectively working at the intersection of multiple fields which will
promote creativity, facilitate communication across areas, introduce novel applications of methods and
approaches to other areas, and promote more creative science.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9926797
- **Project number:** 5R25AG053213-05
- **Recipient organization:** DUKE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Gregory R Samanez Larkin
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $120,171
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2016-09-15 → 2022-10-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9926797

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9926797, Short Courses in Neuroeconomics and Social Neuroscience (5R25AG053213-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9926797. Licensed CC0.

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