This book provides an overview of the concept of economic psychology from behavioral and mathematical perspectives and related theoretical and empirical findings. Economic psychology is defined briefly as a general term for descriptive theories to explain the psychological processes of...

-Preface -- I. Behavioral Decision Theory and the Idea of It -- Chapter 1. Decision-making Phenomenon and Behavioral Decision Theory -- Chapter 2. Preference and Preference Structure -- II. Preference Reversal Phenomenon and Description of the Phenomenon -- Chapter 3. Ordinal Utility and...

Preface -- Chapter 1. What Is Economic Psychology?:The Perspective of Economic Psychology and the Research Framework -- Chapter 2. Rational Choice and Revealed Preference:Theoretical Representation of Preference Relations Leading to the Best Choice -- Chapter 3. Expected Utility Theory and...

This book provides an overview of behavioral decision theory and related research findings. In brief, behavioral decision theory is a general term for descriptive theories to explain the psychological knowledge related to decision-making behavior. It is called a theory, but actually it is a...

The life-cycle theory of saving behavior (Modigliani, 1988) suggests that humans strive towards an equal intertemporal distribution of wealth. However, behavioral life-cycle theory (Shefrin & Thaler, 1988) proposes that people use self control heuristics to postpone wealth until later in life....