Psychology and the Economic Mind : Cognitive Processes and Conceptualization.

Psychology and the Economic Mind : Cognitive Processes and Conceptualization.

This book elaborates on a multidimensional model of decision-making that applies to how individuals make "mundane decisions." Decisions about pursuing relationships, exercise, work, or anything where people might have to "invest" time or behavioral effort are examples. The author...

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Main Author: Leahy, Robert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer Pub. Co., 2002.
Subjects:
Risk-taking (Psychology) > Economic aspects.
Decision making.
Cognitive therapy.
Economics > Psychological aspects.
Cognition.
decision making.
cognition.
Cognition
Cognitive therapy
Decision making
Economics > Psychological aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Portfolio Theory and Decision-Making; 1 An Investment Model of Depressive Resistance; 2 Decision-Making and Mania; 3 Depressive Decision-Making: Validation of the Portfolio Theory Model; 4 Decision-Making and Personality Disorders; Part II: Pessimism and Self-Limitation; 5 Strategic Self-Limitation; 6 Sunk Costs and Resistance to Change; 7 Pessimism as Risk-Management; Part III: Acquisition and Dissatisfaction; 8 Insatiability; 9 Modifying the Cycle of Dissatisfaction; 10 Cognitive Therapy on Wall Street: Schemas and Scripts of Invulnerability.
  • Part IV: Development of Conceptions of Inequality11 The Development of Concepts of Economic and Social Inequality; Conclusions; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.

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