Class 6 - Introduction to BDM

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What is behavioral decision-making

- Decision making for humans
- Based on insights from behavioral economics research and related disciplines like behavioral ethics, behavioral law

Herbert Simon coined the term 'bounded rationality' to describe the decision-making of humans

Complexity and time constraints make people rely on mental shortcuts

Thaler argued that economic policy-making should target humans, not econs, and that this is possible because human 'irrationalities' are not random, but predictable

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Loss aversion: endowment effect

The anticipated increase in value by obtaining an item (buying) is smaller than the anticipated decrease in value of losing the item (selling)

Upside & downside cognitive dissonance

Upside

- Origami valuation
people who built the origami themselves value this much more
- Student baptism
the cons of being baptized are outweighed by the sense of belonging and group coherence of a shared experience the participant is left with

Downside

-Sunk costs
people are afraid to cut their losses and gain nothing at all as opposed to continuing against their better sense of judgement to attain a reward

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