The psychology of economic decisions /

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Imprint:Oxford, [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003-2004.
Description:2 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10070801
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Other authors / contributors:Brocas, Isabelle.
Carrillo, Juan D.
ISBN:9780199257225
0199251061
9780199251063
0199251088 (pbk.)
9780199251087 (pbk.)
0199257213 (v. 2)
9780199257218 (v. 2)
0199257221 (pbk. : v. 2)
Notes:"The papers in this volume were presented at a CEPR/ECARES conference on psychology and economics, held in Brussels on June 8th-10th 2001"--P. vi, vol. 1.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 0. Introduction
  • Part 1. Beliefs: Origins, Formation, and Evolution
  • 1. Costs and constraints in the economy of the mind
  • 2. Understanding under- and over-reaction
  • 3. Self-serving beliefs and the pleasure of outcomes
  • Part 2. Dynamic Choices: Consistency, Commitment and Intertemporal Separability
  • 4. Commitment devices under self-control problems: an overview
  • 5. Consistent intertemporal decision making through memory and anticipation
  • 6. Dynamic decisions under uncertainty: some recent evidence from economics and psychology
  • Part 3. Limited Cognition: Attention, Preference Formation and Risk Evaluation
  • 7. Thinking about attention in games: backward and forward induction
  • 8. Arbitrarily coherent preferences
  • 9. Perception matters: psychophysics for economists
  • Part 4. Affective Behavior: The Role of Emotions in Decision-Making
  • 10. The dark-side of opportunity: regret, disappointment and the cost of prospects
  • 11. Poe: Mood regulation and decision-making: is irrational exuberance really a problem?
  • 12. Which chance was lost? The psychology of damage awards under the loss of chance doctrine