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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • 14.13 (Spring 2004) 
  • Course Title:
  • Economics and Psychology 
  • Course Level:
  • Undergraduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Economics 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. Xavier Gabaix
     
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 14.13 Economics and Psychology



    Spring 2004




    Course Highlights


    This course site features a complete set of lecture notes.


    Course Description


    This course integrates psychological insights into economic models of behavior. It discusses the limitations of standard economic models and surveys the ways in which psychological experiments have been used to learn about preferences, cognition, and behavior. Topics include: trust, vengeance, fairness, impatience, impulsivity, bounded rationality, learning, reinforcement, classical conditioning, loss-aversion, over-confidence, self-serving biases, cognitive dissonance, altruism, subjective well-being, and hedonic adaptation. Economic concepts such as equilibrium, rational choice, utility maximization, Bayesian beliefs, game theory, and behavior under uncertainty are discussed in light of these phenomena.

    *Some translations represent previous versions of courses.

     

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