040319 VO Economic Psychology (2020W)
(MA)
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Details
Sprache: Englisch
Prüfungstermine
Montag
25.01.2021
09:45 - 11:15
Digital
Montag
22.02.2021
09:45 - 11:15
Digital
Dienstag
13.04.2021
12:00 - 13:00
Digital
Dienstag
01.06.2021
12:00 - 13:00
Digital
Lehrende
Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
Montag
05.10.
09:45 - 11:15
Digital
Montag
12.10.
09:45 - 11:15
Digital
Montag
19.10.
09:45 - 11:15
Digital
Montag
09.11.
09:45 - 11:15
Digital
Montag
16.11.
09:45 - 11:15
Digital
Montag
23.11.
09:45 - 11:15
Digital
Montag
30.11.
09:45 - 11:15
Digital
Montag
07.12.
09:45 - 11:15
Digital
Montag
14.12.
09:45 - 11:15
Digital
Montag
11.01.
09:45 - 11:15
Digital
Montag
18.01.
09:45 - 11:15
Digital
Information
Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
Digital or written exams in classroom, depending on the regulations in January, 2021.
- 20 Points total
- 11 Points to pass
- 20 Points total
- 11 Points to pass
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
Prüfungsstoff
Course slides
Literatur
I have posted a detailed course description on Moodle including the recommended readings.
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
Letzte Änderung: Fr 12.05.2023 00:12
1. The development of economic thought with respect to psychology: Difference between economic psychology and behavioral economics. In what aspect psychology informs economics, historical milestones in the development of economics with respect to behavioral/psychological insights.
2. How preferences and values are constructed: Psychological approaches advancing the idea that preferences are constructed on the spot and are susceptible to context, circumstances that give fertile ground for constructed preferences, regularities of constructed preferences, decoy and compromise effects, coherent arbitrariness.
3. The decision under uncertainty and ambiguity aversion: Prospect theory, Ellsberg-paradox, and their consequences in judgment and decision-making.
4. Choice over time: Challenges of standard discounted utility and their remedies. Hyperbolic discounting, present-biased behavior. Dynamic inconsistency. Self-control.
5. (Mis)predicting future taste and utility: Regularities in people’s inability to correctly predict their future preferences and tastes and the practical and daily consequences of these behaviors.
6. Choice architecture: An overview of behaviorally informed public policy. Rationales and tools for interventions relying on behavioral regularities. Reviewing some basic success on using nudges to beneficially change behavior.