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Paul J. Zak

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#2160

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#755

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Behavioral Economics

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#56

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#14

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PhD Economics University of Pennsylvania
Bachelors Mathematics San Diego State University

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According to Wikipedia, Paul J. Zak is an American neuroeconomist. Background Zak graduated with degrees in mathematics and economics from San Diego State University before acquiring a PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is professor at Claremont Graduate University in Southern California. He has studied brain imaging, and was among the first to identify the role of oxytocin in mediating trusting behaviors between unacquainted humans. Zak directs the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies at Claremont Graduate University and is a member of the Neurology Department at Loma Linda University Medical Center. He edited Moral Markets: The Critical Role of Values in the Economy . His book, The Moral Molecule was published in 2012 by Dutton. The book summarizes his findings on oxytocin and discusses the role of oxytocin in human experiences and behaviors such as empathy, altruism, and morality.

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Paul J. Zak's Published Works

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Oxytocin increases trust in humans (2005) (3318)
Trust and Growth (1998) (2904)
Oxytocin Increases Generosity in Humans (2007) (754)
Oxytocin is associated with human trustworthiness (2005) (535)
Empathy toward Strangers Triggers Oxytocin Release and Subsequent Generosity (2009) (355)
Building Trust: Public Policy, Interpersonal Trust, and Economic Development (2002) (246)
The neurobiology of trust. (2008) (223)
Testosterone Administration Decreases Generosity in the Ultimatum Game (2009) (218)
Political risk and capital flight (2006) (213)
Oxytocin Levels in Social Anxiety Disorder (2008) (185)
Massage increases oxytocin and reduces adrenocorticotropin hormone in humans. (2012) (171)
Monetary sacrifice among strangers is mediated by endogenous oxytocin release after physical contact (2008) (150)
Time-to-Build and Cycles (1997) (138)
The Neurobiology of Trust (2004) (126)
Oxytocin infusion increases charitable donations regardless of monetary resources (2011) (98)
The Physiology of Moral Sentiments (2009) (97)
The politics of fertility and economic development. (2000) (90)
The Determinants of Democratic Transitions (1999) (86)
Why Inspiring Stories Make Us React: The Neuroscience of Narrative (2015) (81)
Neuroactive hormones and interpersonal trust: international evidence. (2006) (79)
The Neuroeconomics of Distrust: Sex Differences in Behavior and Physiology. (2005) (75)
Stories vs. facts: triggering emotion and action-taking on climate change (2019) (68)
Introduction: Moral Markets - The Critical Role of Values in the Economy (2006) (63)
The Neuroeconomics of Trust (2005) (62)
The heart of the story: Peripheral physiology during narrative exposure predicts charitable giving (2015) (60)
Oxytocin Increases Trust in Humans Nature (2015) (58)
PLASMA OXYTOCIN IMMUNOREACTIVE PRODUCTS AND RESPONSE TO TRUST IN PATIENTS WITH SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER (2012) (57)
A dynamic theory of the transition to democracy (2003) (55)
trust: a temporary human attachment facilitated by oxytocin (2005) (51)
Effects of a 10-day oxytocin trial in older adults on health and well-being. (2013) (50)
Why trust an algorithm? Performance, cognition, and neurophysiology (2018) (50)
The Moral Molecule: The Source of Love and Prosperity (2012) (50)
A GEOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF STABILITY REGIONS FOR A LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION WITH TWO DELAYS (1995) (49)
Growth of Government and the Politics of Fiscal Policy (2002) (44)
Institutions, Property Rights, and Growth (2002) (44)
The neurobiology of collective action (2013) (41)
Kaleckian Lags in General Equilibrium (1999) (40)
The Bull of Wall Street: Experimental Analysis of Testosterone and Asset Trading (2017) (39)
Oxytocin Increases the Influence of Public Service Advertisements (2013) (36)
The Neuroscience of High-Trust Organizations (2018) (32)
Neuroeconomics and International Studies: A New Understanding of Trust (2011) (29)
Oxytocin and the Biological Basis for Interpersonal and Political Trust (2013) (29)
The Moral Molecule (2009) (29)
Oxytocin Increases Generosity (2007) (28)
A Combination of Dopamine Genes Predicts Success by Professional Wall Street Traders (2012) (27)
Oxytocin reduces food sharing in capuchin monkeys by modulating social distance (2015) (27)
Immigration fertility and growth. (2002) (24)
The Moral Molecule: the new science of what makes us good or evil (2001) (24)
Optimal Fiscal Policy in an Economy Facing Sociopolitical Instability (2003) (23)
Neurofinance: Bridging Psychology, Neurology, and Investor Behavior (2008) (21)
Population Genetics and Economic Growth (2000) (21)
Values and Value: Moral Economics (2006) (20)
Path to Prosperity: The Dynamics of Freedom and Economic Development (2008) (19)
Inductive modeling using causal studies in neuroeconomics: brains on drugs (2010) (16)
Surgical management of spinal stenosis. (2003) (15)
What Accounts for the Emergence of Malthusian Fertility in Transition Economies? (2002) (15)
Sciatic Neuropathy Secondary to Infiltrating Intermuscular Lipoma of the Thigh (2001) (14)
Genetics, family structure, and economic growth (1999) (14)
Posterior transfer of the adductors in children who have cerebral palsy. A long-term study. (1991) (14)
Neuroeconomics Studies (2007) (13)
Oxytocin, Vasopressin and Related Peptides in the Regulation of Behavior: Oxytocin instantiates empathy and produces prosocial behaviors (2013) (12)
Endogenous Oxytocin Release Eliminates In-Group Bias in Monetary Transfers With Perspective-Taking (2018) (12)
Preliminary Evidence for the Neurophysiologic Effects of Online Coupons: Changes in Oxytocin, Stress, and Mood (2015) (10)
The Rule of One-Third (2000) (10)
The Bioeconomics of Social Behavior: Introduction (2004) (10)
Neonatal male circumcision is associated with altered adult socio-affective processing (2020) (9)
Physiological Synchronization Is Associated with Narrative Emotionality and Subsequent Behavioral Response (2014) (9)
Vulnerability to psychogenic non-epileptic seizures is linked to low neuropeptide Y levels (2017) (9)
Population Growth, Urbanisation and the Role of Government in China: A Political Economic Model of Demographic Change (2002) (9)
Lumbosacral radiculopathy secondary to metastatic uterine leiomyosarcoma: a case report. (2000) (8)
Using Brains to Create Trust: A Manager’s Toolbox (2010) (8)
Oxytocin Responses After Dog and Cat Interactions Depend on Pet Ownership and May Affect Interpersonal Trust (2015) (8)
Autonomy Raises Productivity: An Experiment Measuring Neurophysiology (2020) (8)
Elevated plasma oxytocin levels and higher satisfaction with life in young oral contraceptive users (2020) (7)
Oxytocin Release Increases With Age and Is Associated With Life Satisfaction and Prosocial Behaviors (2022) (6)
The Path to Prosperity: A Political Model of Demographic Change (1999) (6)
The Neural Inhibition of Learning Increases Asset Market Bubbles: Experimental Evidence (2017) (6)
International Monetary Policy After the Euro (2005) (6)
Hormones and Economic Decisions (2016) (5)
Trust, Cooperation, and Conflict: Neuropolitics and International Relations (2017) (5)
The Neurophysiology of Corporate Apologies: Why Do People Believe Insincere Apologies? (2019) (5)
Monetary Stability and Economic Growth: A Dialog Between Leading Economists (2003) (5)
Persuasive Narratives and Costly Actions (2017) (4)
Currency crises, monetary union, and the conduct of monetary policy : a debate among leading economists (1999) (4)
Empathy enhancing antidotes for interpersonally toxic leaders. (2020) (4)
Testosterone and Trading: A Biological Driver of Asset Mispricing (2015) (4)
Introduction to CMPS Special Issue on Alternative Models of Conflict (2004) (3)
Measuring Immersion in Experiences with Biosensors - Preparation for International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (2019) (3)
Is the Time-To-Build Model Empirically Viable? (1998) (3)
An fMRI study of interpersonal trust with exogenous oxytocin infusion (2007) (3)
Debt, Death and Taxes (2002) (3)
Oxytocin increases perceived competence and social-emotional engagement with brands (2021) (3)
Preliminary evidence on the determinants of Federal Reserve open market operations (1992) (2)
The Neuroscience of Organizational Trust and Business Performance: Findings From United States Working Adults and an Intervention at an Online Retailer (2021) (2)
Monetary Stability and Economic Growth (2002) (2)
Empathy and Collective Action (2009) (2)
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences: 359 (1451) (2004) (2)
Social Purpose Increases Direct-to-Borrower Microfinance Investments by Reducing Physiologic Arousal (2018) (2)
Alcohol unleashes homo economicus by inhibiting cooperation (2021) (2)
Endogenous Growth Through Government Policy (2000) (2)
Neuropeptide Y and religious commitment in healthy young women (2018) (2)
The Neurobioligy of Trust (2008) (2)
The Gruter Institute Working Papers on Law, Economics, and Evolutionary Biology (2001) (2)
The impact of organizational trust on the performance of police departments (2021) (1)
Hormonal response to perceived emotional distress in incarcerated men with sexual sadism. (2022) (1)
The evolutionary origins of cooperation and trade (2018) (1)
Neuroeconomics. (2004) (1)
Continuous Neurophysiologic Data Accurately Predict Mood and Energy in the Elderly (2022) (1)
The Choice of Institutions: The Role of Risk and Risk-Aversion (2005) (1)
Electrophysiological and neuroendocrine correlates of trust in the Investment Game (2017) (1)
In the mood for risk? an experiment on moods and risk preferences (2011) (0)
Labor Supply, Risk Aversion and Economic Reform in China (1997) (0)
Governments Trust (2003) (0)
Twelve. Values and Value Moral Economics (2010) (0)
Predicting Dishonesty When the Stakes Are High: Physiologic Responses During Face-to-Face Interactions Identifies Who Reneges on Promises to Cooperate (2022) (0)
Elevated plasma oxytocin levels and higher satisfaction with life in young oral contraceptive users (2020) (0)
Oxytocin and the Biological Basis for Interpersonal and Political Trust (2013) (0)
Preface Monetary stability and economic growth in unstable times (2002) (0)
The evolutionary origins of cooperation and trade (2017) (0)
Itai Sened, The political institution of private property. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiv + 204 pages. $54.95 (cloth). (1999) (0)
Matthieu Ricard and Wolf Singer’s Beyond the Self: Conversations between Buddhism and Neuroscience (2017) (0)
A Procedure to Set Prices and Select Inventory in Thinly Traded Markets Using Data from eBay (2022) (0)
TRUST A ND G ROWTH (2001) (0)
11-20-2001 Institutions , Property Rights , and Growth (2013) (0)
Supraphysiologic testosterone increases proactive aggression in the power-to-take game. (2022) (0)
A SCIENCE TRUST. (2010) (0)
Understanding religion: a neurohormonal approach (2017) (0)
REVIEW SYMPOSIUM (2008) (0)
Our inclination to trust a stranger stems in large part from exposure to a small molecule known for an entirely different task : inducing labor BRAIN SCIENCE By (2008) (0)
The Neuroeconomics of Trust The Neuroeconomics of Trust (2005) (0)
Explore and Exploit: An Evolutionary Analysis of Institutional Dynamics (2003) (0)
Neurobiología de la CONFIANZA (2010) (0)
Why people keep watching: neurophysiologic immersion during video consumption increases viewing time and influences behavior (2022) (0)
Personal and Impersonal Exchange, Trust and Growth (2010) (0)
Read Montague: Why choose this book? How we make decisions (2010) (0)
Predicting psychogenic non-epileptic seizures from serum levels of neuropeptide Y and adrenocorticotropic hormone (2019) (0)
Endogenous Growth, Fertility and the Migration of Productive Factors (1998) (0)
A neuroexperimental design on the influence of experienced gains and losses on risk-taking behavior (2011) (0)
The Rule of One‐Third (2002) (0)
Phillip M. Parker. Physioeconomics: The Basis for Long-Run Economic Growth. MIT Press, Cambridge. 2000 (2000) (0)

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