Contents of Lectures
1 Rationality, Irrationality, and Rationalization
Part 1 Consumer Purchasing Decisions
2 Transaction Utility and Consumer Pricing
3 Mental Accounting
4 Status Quo Bias and Default Options
5 The Winner’s Curse and Auction Behavior
Part 2 Information and Uncertainty
6 Bracketing Decisions
7 Representativeness and Availability
8 Confirmation and Overconfidence
9 Decision under Risk and Uncertainty
10 Prospect Theory and Decision under Risk or Uncertainty
Part 3 Time Discounting and the Long and Short Run
11 Disagreeing with Ourselves: Projection and Hindsight Biases
12 Naïve Procrastination
13 Committing and Uncommitting
Part 4 Social Preferences
14 Selfishness and Altruism
15 Fairness and Psychological Games