Dealing with the problem of aging society is nowadays a challenging area of interests for both practice and science. Cognitive decline influences the decision-making process in elderly people. Changes in effectiveness of decisions are however situation-dependent. Aging not only affects the quality of decisions, but also strategy selection and choice satisfaction. Contemporary research and theories are discussed in this paper.

This paper serves as a brief introduction into the methods, results and problems of the new interdisciplinary field of neuroecomics (and its relatives).The focus is on the practical benefits that may result from it for the economicprofession. These primarily involve the possibility of setting new promisingresearch directions and providing novel tools raising hopes of enabling directobservation of human preference. The author also discusses methodological and ethical challenges that neuroeconomics is or will soon be facing.

It was verified whether subjects who were on empty stomach perceived delayed payments differently from people who were immediately after a meal. The results showed that subjects were satisfied with a smaller delayed payment when they were before than after the meal.