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  • Builds on and complements the successful first volume of The Psychology of Economic Decisions: Rationality and Well-being
  • Accessible to readers unfamiliar with the technical sides of either psychology or economics
  • Very strong list of contributors from the US and Europe

0Introduction
PART I. BELIEFS: ORIGINS, FORMATION, AND EVOLUTION
1Costs and constraints in the economy of the mind
2Understanding under- and over-reaction
3Self-serving beliefs and the pleasure of outcomes
PART II. DYNAMIC CHOICES: CONSISTENCY, COMMITMENT AND INTERTEMPORAL SEPARABILITY
4Commitment devices under self-control problems: an overview
5Consistent intertemporal decision making through memory and anticipation
6Dynamic decisions under uncertainty: some recent evidence from economics and psychology
PART III. LIMITED COGNITION: ATTENTION, PREFERENCE FORMATION AND RISK EVALUATION
7Thinking about attention in games: backward and forward induction
8Arbitrarily coherent preferences
9Perception matters: psychophysics for economists
PART IV. AFFECTIVE BEHAVIOR: THE ROLE OF EMOTIONS IN DECISION-MAKING
10The dark-side of opportunity: regret, disappointment and the cost of prospects
11Mood regulation and decision-making: is irrational exuberance really a problem?
12Which chance was lost? The psychology of damage awards under the loss of chance doctrine
Economists, psychologists, biologists, zoologists, philosophers, and others interested in behavioural economics and the interface between economics and psychology.
  • The Psychology of Economic Decisions: Reasons & Choices: V2



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