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Informationen zum Autor George Loewenstein, one of the founders of the field of behavioral economics and of the new field of neuroeconomics, is the Herbert A. Simon Professor of Economics and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his PhD in economics from Yale University in 1985 and since then has held academic positions at the University of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon University, and fellowships at Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, The Russell Sage Foundation and The Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. His research focuses on applications of psychology to economics. Loewenstein has published more than 100 journal articles in economics, psychology, law, business and medicine as well as numerous books and book chapters. He is the former president of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. Klappentext One area in which Loewenstein has made a major contribution is in the analysis of how individual preferences are formed: whether they can be predicted and the extent to which they are influenced by emotion rather than reason. 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction General Perspectives, History, and Methods 1: George Loewenstein: Because it is There: The Challenge of Mountaineering...for Utility Theory 2: George Loewenstein, Niklas Karlsson, and Jane McCafferty: The Economics of Meaning 3: George Loewenstein: The Fall and Rise of Psychological Explanations in the Economics of Intertemporal Choice 4: George Loewenstein, Nava Ashraf, and Colin F. Camerer: Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist 5: George Loewenstein: Experimental Economics from the Vantage-point of Behavioral Economics 6: George Loewenstein: The Psychology of Curiosity: A Review and Reinterpretation Social Preferences 7: George Loewenstein, Max H. Bazerman, and Leigh Thompson: Social Utility and Decision Making in Interpersonal Contexts 8: George Loewenstein and Linda Babcock: Explaining the Bargaining Impasse: The Role of Self-Serving Biases Basic Research on Preferences 9: George Loewenstein, Max H. Bazerman, Sally Blount, and Christopher K. Hsee: Preference Reversals Between Joint and Seperate Evaluations of Options: A Review and Theoretical Analysis 10: George Loewenstein, Dan Ariely, and Drazen Prelec: "Coherent Arbitrariness": Stable Demand Curves Without Staple Preferences Predicting Tastes and Feelings 11: George Loewenstein and Daniel Adler: A Bias in the Prediction of Tastes 12: George Loewenstein, Leaf Van Boven, and David Dunning: Mispredicting the Endowment Effect: Understimation of owners' selling prices by buyer's agents 13: George Loewenstein, Ted O'Donoghue, and Matthew Rabin: Projection Bias in Predicting Future Utility Intertemporal Choice 14: George Loewenstein: Anticipation and the Valuation of Delayed Consumption 15: George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec: Anomalies in Intertemporal Choice: Evidence and an Interpretation 16: George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec: Preferences for Sequences of Outcomes 17: George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec: The Red and the Black: Mental Accounting of Savings and Debt Emotions 18: George Loewenstein: Out of Control: Visceral Influences on Behavior 19: George Loewenstein, Christopher K. Hsee, Elke U. Weber, and Ned W...
