About the Book
What is value? Where does it come from? How does it impact our emotions, motivations, decisions and experiences? Value is involved in practically every aspect of human life: whether we decide whom to marry or which political candidate to elect, whether we choose between consumer goods, whether we ask ourselves what is morally right, or beautiful, or sacred, value plays a crucial role. Today the investigation of value is central to many
disciplines interested in human thinking, feeling, and behavior, such as economics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, or sociology. Interestingly, while these disciplines all investigate value, they use
different definitions and focus on different aspects of the phenomenon.The Handbook of Value combines the forces of the many disciplines involved in value research, by integrating the perspectives of distinguished scholars from the different disciplines. To allow for a high degree of interdisciplinarity, the editors assembled a panel of eminent associate editors representing the different disciplines: Professor Ernst Fehr (economics), Professor Patrik Vuilleumier
(neuroscience), Professor Julien Deonna (philosophy) and Professor Fabrice Clement (sociology). Contributions cover conceptual issues such as definitions of value, psychological and neurological mechanisms
underlying value computation and representation, types and taxonomies of value, interindividual and intercultural value differences, the role of value in emotion, moral judgment, decision-making and behavior, as well as "case studies " of individual varieties of value. The volume contributes to an interdisciplinary dialogue and integration by providing a common reference point that will serve as a resource for disciplinary excellence and interdisciplinary
cross-fertilization. At the same time, the volume provides an excellent overview of the academic state of the art for more practically oriented readers, for example from a business background, who want to understand
the determinants of value.
Table of Contents:
What is value? Where does it come from?
1: Christine Tappolet and Mauro Rossi: What is value? Where does it come from? A philosophical perspective
2: Toni Ronnow-Rasmussen and Wlodek Rabinowicz: Value taxonomy
3: E. Tory Higgins: What is value? Where does it come from? A psychological perspective
4: Shalom Schwartz: Basic Individual Values: Sources and Consequences
5: Dino Levy and Paul Glimcher: Common value representation - A neuroeconomic perspective
6: Jorge Moll, Roland Zahn, and Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza: The neural underpinnings of moral value
7: Diana Boer and Klaus Boehnke: What are values? Where do they come from? A developmental perspective
Values, emotions, and decision-making
8: Julien Deonna and Fabrice Teroni: Value and emotion
9: Christian von Scheve: Societal origins of values and evaluative feelings
10: Peter Sokol-Hessner and Elizabeth A. Phelps: Affect, decision-making and value: Neural and psychological mechanisms
11: Rajna Gibson, Carmen Tanner and Alexander F. Wagner: Protected values and economic decision making
12: Gabriella Jiga-Boy, Greg Maio, Geoff Haddock and Katy Tapper: Values and behaviour
Varieties of value
13: Dan-Mikael Ellingsen and Morten Kringelbach: Hedonic value
14: Raffaele Rodogno: Prudential value or well-being
15: Jerold Levinson: Musical Value
16: Thomas Dietz: Environmental value
17: John Jost, Elvira Basevich, Eric S. Dickson and Sharareh Noorbaloochi: The Place of Values in a World of Politics: Personality, Motivation, and Ideology
18: Adam Pelser and Robert C. Roberts: Religious value and moral psychology
Afterword
19: Tobias Brosch and David Sander: From values to valuation: An interdisciplinary approach to the study of value
About the Author :
Tobias Brosch, born in 1978, studied psychology at the Universities of Trier (Germany) and Canterbury (UK), and received a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Geneva (Switzerland). After several years of postdoctoral studies at New York University (USA) he returned to the Department of Psychology at the University of Geneva, where he is now Assistant Professor of Psychology and Director of the Consumer Decision and Sustainable Behavior Lab. His main research
and teaching activities concern the influence of values and emotions on decision-making, and how these can be leveraged to promote sustainable behavior. David Sander, born in 1976, studied mathematics
and psychology at the University René Descartes (Paris, France), and received a PhD in Cognitive Sciences from the University Louis Lumière (Lyon, France). In 2002, he joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), where he is now Full Professor and holds the Chair for Emotion Psychology. His main research and teaching activities concern the mechanisms involved in emotion elicitation and how these mechanisms modulate attention, memory, and
decision-making. For this work, he is the recipient of the 2013 National Latsis Prize. David Sander is the Director of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences.
Review :
`Highly accessible and wide-ranging, this book is an important resource for scientists, students and professionals who are eager to obtain a rapid, conclusive overview of central terms and topics in the field of emotion and affect and the mechanisms underlying these aspects dominating wide areas of our lives'
K.A. Jellinger, Vienna, European Journal of Neurology 17
