Handbook of Value: Perspectives from Economics, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology
Tobias Brosch and David Sander
Abstract
Ever since the days of Plato scholars have been trying to understand value. What is value? Where does it come from? How does it impact our emotions, motivations, choices, and experiences? Value is involved in practically every aspect of human life: whether we choose between consumer goods, whether we decide whom to marry or which political candidate to elect, whether we ask ourselves what is morally right, or beautiful, or sacred, value plays a crucial role. Today the investigation of value is central to many academic disciplines studying human thinking, feeling, and decision-making, including ... More
Ever since the days of Plato scholars have been trying to understand value. What is value? Where does it come from? How does it impact our emotions, motivations, choices, and experiences? Value is involved in practically every aspect of human life: whether we choose between consumer goods, whether we decide whom to marry or which political candidate to elect, whether we ask ourselves what is morally right, or beautiful, or sacred, value plays a crucial role. Today the investigation of value is central to many academic disciplines studying human thinking, feeling, and decision-making, including economics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. This volume brings together original contributions from the different disciplines involved in value research, addressing conceptual issues such as definitions of value, types and taxonomies of value, the cognitive and neurological mechanisms underlying value computation, inter-individual and intercultural value differences, the role of value in emotion, and the impact of value on choices and behaviors in different domains. The volume thus contributes to an interdisciplinary dialogue by providing a common reference point that may serve as a resource for integration and cross-fertilization. At the same time, the volume provides an overview of the academic state of the art for readers who want to understand the determinants of value.
Keywords:
value,
values,
decision value,
core value,
economics,
neuroscience,
philosophy,
psychology,
sociology
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198716600 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: December 2015 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198716600.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Tobias Brosch, editor
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
David Sander, editor
Full Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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