Table of Contents

0: Isabelle Brocas and Juan D. Carrillo: Introduction
PART I. BELIEFS: ORIGINS, FORMATION, AND EVOLUTION
1: Jon Elster: Costs and constraints in the economy of the mind
2: Cade Massey and George Wu: Understanding under- and over-reaction
3: Barbara Mellers and A. Peter McGraw: Self-serving beliefs and the pleasure of outcomes
PART II. DYNAMIC CHOICES: CONSISTENCY, COMMITMENT AND INTERTEMPORAL SEPARABILITY
4: Isabelle Brocas, Juan D. Carrillo and Mathias Dewatripont: Commitment devices under self-control problems: an overview
5: Ignacio Palacios-Huerta: Consistent intertemporal decision making through memory and anticipation
6: Robin Cubitt, Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden: Dynamic decisions under uncertainty: some recent evidence from economics and psychology
PART III. LIMITED COGNITION: ATTENTION, PREFERENCE FORMATION AND RISK EVALUATION
7: Colin F. Camerer and Eric Johnson: Thinking about attention in games: backward and forward induction
8: Dan Ariely, George Loewenstein and Drazen Prelec: Arbitrarily coherent preferences
9: Elke U. Weber: Perception matters: psychophysics for economists
PART IV. AFFECTIVE BEHAVIOR: THE ROLE OF EMOTIONS IN DECISION-MAKING
10: Thane S. Pittman and Orit E. Tykocinski: The dark-side of opportunity: regret, disappointment and the cost of prospects
11: Ralph Erber, Maureen Wang Erber and Jennifer Poe: Mood regulation and decision-making: is irrational exuberance really a problem?
12: Jonathan J. Koehler: Which chance was lost? The psychology of damage awards under the loss of chance doctrine

About the Author

Isabelle Brocas is Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California, and Assistant Professor (on leave) at the Free University of Brussels. She is also a research affiliate at CEPR, a research advisor at EERC (Russia), and co-editor of the 'Annals of Marie Curie Fellows Association'. Juan D. Carrillo is Associate Professor at the University of Southern California, and is currently on leave from the Free University of Brussels. He is also a research
affiliate at CEPR, a research advisor at EERC (Russia), and Associate Editor of the Spanish Economic Review.