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The objective of this doctoral thesis is to put forth the role of psychology in the fluctuations of production …, redistribution and inequalities. Our work is centered on two axes : i) the importance of psychology with regards to inequalities in …
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Hanging up our coat, tidying our desk, classifying our books, what meanings do these mundane practices convey? Extending Mary Douglas’s work, this article investigates tidiness from the angle of symbolic pollution. Based on photo-elicitation, it shows that, similarly to symbolic pollution...
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expérimentation en économie et en psychologie (incitation financière et utilisation de la tromperie), avant d’introduire ce qui nous …
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in which decision-making is usually construed in philosophy, economics and psychology, I review many important findings … the study of neural mechanisms involved in decision-making and their economic significance. Following a survey of the ways … in neuroeconomics to show that they suggest a revised picture of decision-making and ourselves as choosing agents …
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lens of another opposition in the philosophy of probability and in probability theory, between Bayesianism and frequentism …. We show how this probabilistic opposition has indirectly shaped a controversy in psychology that opposes two research … programs - Heuristics and Biases and Ecological Rationality - which play respective roles in the foundations of individual …
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handled by psychologists and economists. With respect to the historical background of decision theory in economics, it is …This paper discusses the ways by which a certain type of behavioral deviation from expected utility theory has been …
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The analysis of the psychological dispositions of political actors, their institutional implications and impact on public policy has received increasing academic attention in recent decades. We believe that the state of the art merits an introductory review to guide the reader on the major...
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The objective of this paper is to discuss the assumptions of rationality of individuals in their use and acquisition of …
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This study attempts to posit the nexus between psychology and economics. However it is not the purpose of the paper to … focus on all aspects of psychology and its various theories. It is also not the purpose of this paper to trace the … traces the historical experience of western economics and psychology through three phases, which inevitably led to secularism …
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serious implications for public policymaking. In this book, leading experts in psychology, decision research, policy analysis …
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