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

ISBN:

9780826150431

Title:

Author:

Leahy, Robert L.

Personal Author:

Leahy, Robert L.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 238 pages) : illustrations

Contents:

Portfolio Theory and Decision-Making -- An Investment Model of Depressive Resistance -- Decision-Making and Mania -- Depressive Decision-Making: Validation of the Portfolio Theory Model -- Decision-Making and Personality Disorders -- Pessimism and Self-Limitation -- Strategic Self-Limitation -- Sunk Costs and Resistance to Change -- Pessimism as Risk-Management -- Acquisition and Dissatisfaction -- Insatiability -- Modifying the Cycle of Dissatisfaction -- Cognitive Therapy on Wall Street: Schemas and Scripts of Invulnerability -- Development of Conceptions of Inequality -- The Development of Concepts of Economic and Social Inequality.

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Subject Term:

Risk-taking (Psychology) -- Economic aspects.

Decision making.

Cognitive therapy.

Economics -- Psychological aspects.

Cognition.

Cognition disorders -- Psychology.

Investments.

Cognitive therapy -- Methods.

Risk assessment.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2003

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Shelf Number	Material Type	Copy	Shelf Location	Status
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Summary

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 contributes to our knowledge of personality disorders such as depression and mania.

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