In this thesis I present three essays in which the influence of heuristics on individual decision making is analyzed … prenatal androgen exposure on loss aversion, as an essential driver of heuristics in financial economics, is analyzed. In … chapter four, we went beyond the heuristics applied by stock investors and experimentally investigate disposition ... …

rational behaviour (the Heuristics-and-Biases program). Many economists seem unaware that this viewpoint has long been … heuristics need not be irrational, particularly when judged relative to characteristics of the environment. We sketch out the …-Rationality tradition. While the heuristics-and-biases program is, via Behavioural Economics, now well-established in (mainstream neo …

interactions, players who make their choices fast and intuitively, relying on social heuristics, choose stag more often than other … Heuristics Hypothesis (Rand et al., 2012) applied to stag hunt interactions. …