The various behavioral disciplines model human behavior in distinct and incompatible ways.
Yet, recent theoretical and empirical developments have created the conditions for …

The Adaptive Decision Maker argues that people use a variety of strategies to make
judgments and choices. The authors introduce a model that shows how decision makers …

Game theory is central to understanding human behavior and relevant to all of the
behavioral sciences—from biology and economics, to anthropology and political science …

Economists, psychologists, and marketers are interested in determining the monetary value
people place on non-market goods for a variety of reasons: to carry out cost-benefit analysis …

Over the last few decades behavioral economics has revolutionized the discipline. It has
done so by putting the human back into economics, by recognizing that people sometimes …

A survey of thirty‐one experimental studies which report data on the comparative effects of
monetary rewards and opportunity cost shows:(1) several studies in which increased …

Behavioral economics has become an important part of the economics profession. As a
subfield, it tries to make sense of persistent violations of the standard model for economics …

In this book, acclaimed economist Herbert Gintis ranges widely across many fields—
including economics, psychology, anthropology, sociology, moral philosophy, and biology …

Rationality is often defined in terms of coherence, assuming that a single syntactical rule
such as consistency, transitivity, or Bayes' rule suffices to evaluate behavior. Many normative …

Economic theory has been under severe attack in recent years. The source of this attack has
been the observation of apparently robust behavioral anomalies in decisions that …