Better than conscious? : decision making, the human mind, and implications for institutions / edited by Christoph Engel and Wolf Singer ; program advisory committee: Christoph Engel ... [et al.].

Forum held June 10-15, 2007 in Frankfurt, Germany.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Better than conscious?: the brain, the psyche, behavior, and institutions / Christoph Engel and Wolf Singer -- Conscious and nonconscious processes: distinct forms of evidence accumulation? / Stanislas Dehaene -- The role of value systems in decision making / Peter Dayan -- Neurobiology of decision making: an intentional framework / Michael N. Shadlen ... [et al.] -- Brain signatures of social decision making / Kevin McCabe and Tania Singer -- Neuronal correlates of decision making / Michael Platt ... [et al.] -- The evolution of implicit and explicit decision making / Robert Kurzban -- Passive parallel automatic minimalist processing / Roger Ratcliff and Gail McKoon -- How culture and brain mechanisms interact in decision making / Merlin Donald -- Marr, memory, and heuristics / Lael J. Schooler -- Explicit and implicit strategies in decision making / Christian Keysers ... [et al.] -- How evolution outwits bounded rationality: the efficient interaction of automatic and deliberate processes in decision making and implications for institutions / Andreas Glöckner -- The evolutionary biology of decision making / Jeffrey R. Stevens -- Gene culture coevolution and the evolution of social institutions / Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson -- Individual decision making and the evolutionary roots of institutions / Richard McElreath ... [et al.] -- The neurobiology of individual decision making, dualism, and legal accountability / Paul W. Glimcher -- Conscious and nonconscious cognitive processes in jurors' decisions / Reid Hastie -- Institutions for intuitive man / Christoph Engel -- Institutional design capitalizing on the intuitive nature of decision making / Mark Lubell ... [et al.].