The Psychology of Economic Decisions

0: Isabelle Brocas and Juan D. Carrillo: Introduction PART I. BELIEFS: ORIGINS, FORMATION, AND EVOLUTION 1: Jon Elster: Costs and constraints in the economy of the mind 2: Cade Massey and George Wu: Understanding under- and over-reaction 3: Barbara Mellers and A. Peter McGraw: Self-serving beliefs and the pleasure of outcomes PART II. DYNAMIC CHOICES: CONSISTENCY, COMMITMENT AND INTERTEMPORAL SEPARABILITY 4: Isabelle Brocas, Juan D. Carrillo and Mathias Dewatripont: Commitment devices under self-control problems: an overview 5: Ignacio Palacios-Huerta: Consistent intertemporal decision making through memory and anticipation 6: Robin Cubitt, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden: Dynamic decisions under uncertainty: some recent evidence from economics and psychology PART III. LIMITED COGNITION: ATTENTION, PREFERENCE FORMATION AND RISK EVALUATION 7: Colin F. Camerer and Eric Johnson: Thinking about attention in games: backward and forward induction 8: Dan Ariely, George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec: Arbitrarily coherent preferences 9: Elke U. Weber: Perception matters: psychophysics for economists PART IV. AFFECTIVE BEHAVIOR: THE ROLE OF EMOTIONS IN DECISION-MAKING 10: Thane S. Pittman and Orit E. Tykocinski: The dark-side of opportunity: regret, disappointment and the cost of prospects 11: Ralph Erber, Maureen Wang Erber and Jennifer Poe: Mood regulation and decision-making: is irrational exuberance really a problem? 12: Jonathan J. Koehler: Which chance was lost? The psychology of damage awards under the loss of chance doctrine