Exotic Preferences
Behavioral Economics and Human Motivation
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 2 August 2007
- ISBN 9780199257072
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages688 pages
- Size 241x164x43 mm
- Weight 1179 g
- Language English
- Illustrations figures and tables 0
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Short description:
George Loewenstein has been at the forefront of progress in bringing together the disciplines of economics and psychology. This volume presents a selection of his most influential papers with an introduction which provides an historical overview of the concept of preferences, summarizes his papers, and places them in the context of the literature.
MoreLong description:
George Loewenstein is one of the pioneers of the rapidly growing field of behavioral economics. For over twenty years he has been working at the intersection of economics and psychology and is one of the few people of whom it can be said that their work is equally respected and well known within both disciplines. This book brings together a selection of his papers focusing on what he calls "exotic preferences"-- the disparate motives that drive human behavior. In addition to covering the history and methodology of behavioral economics, they also touch on a wide range of fascinating topics such as the motives that drive extreme athletes, our propensity to want to get unpleasant experiences out of the way so we can focus on the more pleasant, and the psychology of curiosity. There are also papers on social preferences, discussing the importance of perceptions of fairness in interpersonal interactions, intertemporal choice-- the tradeoffs between costs and benefits occurring at different points in time-- and the impact of emotion on economic decision making. An original introduction outlines Loewenstein's general approach to research, and there are short introductions to each paper outlining briefly when, how and why they came to be written, providing a fascinating and vivid insight into the process of intellectual creativity.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
General Perspectives, History, and Methods
Because it is There: The Challenge of Mountaineering...for Utility Theory
The Economics of Meaning
The Fall and Rise of Psychological Explanations in the Economics of Intertemporal Choice
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist
Experimental Economics from the Vantage-point of Behavioral Economics
The Psychology of Curiosity: A Review and Reinterpretation
Social Preferences
Social Utility and Decision Making in Interpersonal Contexts
Explaining the Bargaining Impasse: The Role of Self-Serving Biases
Basic Research on Preferences
Preference Reversals Between Joint and Seperate Evaluations of Options: A Review and Theoretical Analysis
"Coherent Arbitrariness": Stable Demand Curves Without Staple Preferences
Predicting Tastes and Feelings
A Bias in the Prediction of Tastes
Mispredicting the Endowment Effect: Understimation of owners' selling prices by buyer's agents
Projection Bias in Predicting Future Utility
Intertemporal Choice
Anticipation and the Valuation of Delayed Consumption
Anomalies in Intertemporal Choice: Evidence and an Interpretation
Preferences for Sequences of Outcomes
The Red and the Black: Mental Accounting of Savings and Debt
Emotions
Out of Control: Visceral Influences on Behavior
Risk as Feelings
Investment Behavior and the Dark Side of Emotion
Heart Strings and Purse Strings: Carryover Effects of Emotions on Economic Decisions
Separate Neural Systems Value Immediate and Delayed Monetary Rewards
