Reward and Decision

Questions about how biological organisms go about maximizing their rewards, how decision-making processes allow them to weigh the different sources of reward and pursue some over others, how this serves their immediate interests as well as the collective needs of the social structures and/or species to which they belong, and how successfully individuals, societies, and entire species accomplish these goals lie at the heart of at least four major disciplines: neuroscience, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology. [...]one inspiration for this special issue was to explore just this question: to what extent can our understanding of human behavior--focusing specifically on the mechanisms underlying reward, reinforcement learning, and decision making--begin to bridge between neurobiological substrates, behavior, and social consequences.