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C. Monica Capra
Assistant
Professor
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My areas of
interest are Experimental and Behavioral Economics. Put
broadly, I use laboratory experiments to study decision
making in economic environments. One of my main
interests is decision processes. In recent projects, I use fMRI technology to study brain activation in an effort to better
understand the process of choice. This area of research is called Neuroeconomics.
I am also interested in developing laboratory
environments that would be useful for policy. Currently, I
am working on evaluating alternative measures of
trust, and on the application of laboratory
methodologies for the study of entrepreneurship.
I am an adjunct
faculty of Emory's new Center for Neuropolicy . I
am also affiliated with the Latin American and Caribbean
Studies Program ( LACS), the Institute for Human Rights
( IHR) at Emory, and the EXCEN lab at Georgia
State University.
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"The economist may attempt to
ignore psychology, but it is a sheer impossibility to ignore
human nature,
for his science is a science
of human behavior." J.M.
Clark, 1918
"Facts
do not come from the armchair, but from careful
observation and experimentation."
H. Simon in
Rubinstein, 1998
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C. Monica Capra
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