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Association: Name: MPSA Annual National Conference URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~mpsa/
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Boudreau, Cheryl., Coulson, Seana. and McCubbins, Mathew. "The Effect of Institutions on Behavior and Brain Activity: Insights from EEG and Timed-Response Experiments" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the MPSA Annual National Conference, Palmer House Hotel, Hilton, Chicago, IL, Apr 03, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p268354_index.html>

Boudreau, C. , Coulson, S. and McCubbins, M. D. , 2008-04-03 "The Effect of Institutions on Behavior and Brain Activity: Insights from EEG and Timed-Response Experiments" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the MPSA Annual National Conference, Palmer House Hotel, Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p268354_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: While much is known about citizens’ decisions to trust others, much less is known about the cognitive mechanisms that underlie these decisions. Thus, we analyze both the behavior and brain activity associated with trust by replicating well known experiments on trust with electroencephalograph (EEG) and timed-response technology. Although our behavioral results are consistent with previous research, our EEG results reveal something about trust that we do not learn from simply observing subjects’ decisions and reaction times. Specifically, they demonstrate that subjects process information differently when it comes from someone who is trustworthy by virtue of sharing common interests with them versus someone who is made trustworthy by an external institution. This processing difference exists even though subjects are equally likely to base their decisions upon the statements of these two trustworthy individuals and even though they take the same amount of time to make their decisions. Given these differences between subjects’ behavior and brain activity, it appears that recording EEGs adds a new dimension to our understanding of subjects’ decisions to trust the statements of others.

Predicting biased behavior with implicit attitudes: results from an online voting experiment

Race and Ethnic Differences in Religious Based Political Behavior: Is the Religious Right Just Another Political Interest Group?