Gregory Samanez-Larkin received the annual Poorvu Family Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching. The award was established to recognize and enhance Yale's strength in interdisciplinary teaching
The Science of Bad Money Decisions - And How to Avoid the Most Common Pitfalls
Your Broker as Elder Abuse Backstop
Dan Weiner wins Angier Prize
Researchers Say More Needs to Be Done Analyzing Effectiveness of Brain Games
Serving the Needs of Aging Investors
Professor Samanez-Larkin addresses what we thought we knew, what we know now, and what we can do about protecting the financial well being and reducing the fraud susceptibility of aging investors. He further discusses the front-line neuroscience that is changing how we understand the issues facing senior investors at the Senior Investors Forum on Serving the Needs of Our Aging Investors in Chicago hosted by SIFMA.
Best foot upward
New NIA grant funded to study dopamine and decision making
New R01 grant funded to examine how individual and age differences in dopamine receptors, release, and transporters are related to individual differences in decision making. The project is a collaboration between the Zald lab at Vanderbilt and the Samanez-Larkin lab at Yale.
Scammers take aim at aging population
Lab research at RLDM 2013
Lab collaborator (and future doctor!) Jacob Young presents at the inaugural Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM2013) at Princeton University.