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Classical conditioning (conventionally modeled as correlation-based learning) and operant conditioning (conventionally modeled as reinforcement learning or reward-based learning) have been found in biological systems. Evidence shows that these two mechanisms strongly involve learning about...
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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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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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This paper discusses the ways by which a certain type of behavioral deviation from expected utility theory has been handled by psychologists and economists. With respect to the historical background of decision theory in economics, it is argued that there are good reasons for more theoretical...
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Evaluating the economic behaviors in terms of psychology was considered as irrational at the beginning and this … taken into consideration has come forth, and dependence of economy on human psychology has been pointed out because, it …. From this point of view, the aim of this study is defining the concept of economic psychology primarily and then as the …
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In the last decade, behavioral economics, borrowing from psychology and sociology to explain decisions inconsistent …
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This essay provides a perspective on the trend towards integrating psychology into economics. Some topics are discussed …
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The paper "Can Post Keynesians Make Better Use of Behavioral Economics?" argues that "there is scope for a successful engagement between behavioral economics and Post Keynesian economics if it is based on explicitly stated common ground defined in terms of methodology." That argument limits the...
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Behavioral economics has shaken the view that individuals have well-defined, consistent and stable preferences. This raises a challenge for welfare economics, which takes as a key postulate that individual preferences should be respected. We agree with Bernheim (2009) and Bernheim and Rangel...
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