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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782549503321

Autore

Leahy Robert L

Titolo

Psychology and the economic mind [[electronic resource] ] : cognitive processes & conceptualization / / Robert L. Leahy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y., : Springer Pub. Co., c2003

ISBN

1-281-81360-5

9786611813604

0-8261-5043-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Disciplina

658.4/03/019

Soggetti

Risk-taking (Psychology) - Economic aspects

Decision making

Cognitive therapy

Economics - Psychological aspects

Cognition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-229) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 utilizes cognitive-developmental theory to understand how children and adolescents make sense of economic inequality. This modern portfolio theory model of decision-making applies economic concepts to everyday life and may help us understand why individuals differ in their willingness to take risks. It also contri