Tag Archives for Behavioral Psychology
FYI – two pieces I’ve written on the financial crisis
Fellow behavioral economics students: Here below are two articles I wrote that might be worth a read 😉 1. Transcript from an imagined conversation Read this first piece online here:http://showsupport.typepad.com/odyssey/2008/09/imagined-conversa… Continue reading
Tip 138 – Why You Shouldn’t Vote in a Fire House
An interesting bit on “priming” as we talked about in the behavioral psychology course… FWIW—I don’t really get the title of the post. (And, no, this doesn’t have to do with the fact that I’m married to a firefighter!) So why shouldn’t you vote in… Continue reading
Behavioral Psychology and Economics September 2008 – audio recording
Here’s the audio recording for Behavioral Psychology and Economics September 2008 call. Listen online or download the mp3 file and listen to it as a podcast on your ipod. Download Behavioral-September2008-Call4.mp3 Continue reading
September’s reading assignment
Hi everyone, The next reading assignment for the class on Thursday, September 11 at 1pm NY/10am PT is: – Reading assignment for September phone callRead in your Hastie & Dawes textbook – Chapter 3 sections 3.3 – 3.7 and all of Chapter 13 Please e-… Continue reading
Behavioral Psychology and Economics August 2008 – audio recording
Here’s the audio recording for Behavioral Psychology and Economics August 2008 call. Listen online or download the mp3 file and listen to it as a podcast on your ipod. Download Behavioral-August2008-Call3.mp3 Continue reading
August’s reading assignment
Hi everyone, Thanks for participating in the class! The next reading assignment is: – Reading assignment for August phone callRead in your Hastie & Dawes textbook – All of six sections of the appendix (A.1 – A.6) Please e-mail me with any question… Continue reading
Text Book vs trade book
Thought I would throw my feedback in via e-mail since the conversation is continuing… I like the challenge of the text book, but it has reminded that it is possible to take English words that I understand on their own but when put together in a … Continue reading
Behavioral Psychology and Economics June 2008 – audio recording
Here’s the audio recording for Behavioral Psychology and Economics June 2008 call. Listen online or download the mp3 file and listen to it as a podcast on your ipod. Download Behavioral-June2008-Call2.mp3 Continue reading
Question for Eric Gold on “trust” as an intuition
On the first call we learned of a number of ways in which we are wired to make choices which might not be rational. As Eric was conducting the repeated coin toss experiment on today’s call, the thought crossed my mind (perhaps because I could not … Continue reading
perception behavior
Here is a really interesting presentation from TED (this is *not* the brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor) which some of you might have already seen. I don’t’ want to say too much upfront – the video (which is short) should do the work. http://trans… Continue reading