14.137  Psychology and Economics

Class Evaluation

Dear Students,

We would greatly appreciate it if you could please submit a class evaluation for 14.137. The website to do this is:

http://web.mit.edu/subjectevaluation/evaluate.html

And you have until next Monday to post an evaluation,

Thanks!

Announced on 11 May 2011  12:19  p.m. by Laura Ralston

Graduate Student Presentations

Hi All,

We have some short (15 minute) graduate student presentations coming up.

On 4th May:

Mira Frick - Paulo Natenzon's job market paper "Random Choice and Learning", which seeks to provide a new explanation for both the Attraction Effect and Tversky's Similarity Hypothesis

Morgan Grossman-McKee - subjectively-ambiguous events in Savage-style models of choice under uncertainty

On May 11th:

Nell Putnam-Farr - paper idea (breaking down a larger goal into smaller pieces); or exercise and habit formation (tbd)

Anton Tsoy - Eliaz, Spiegler, TE 2008 Consumer optimism and price discrimination

Nils Wernerfelt and David Liu (will present together) - Lowenstein paper on mental accounting, http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.mit.edu/stable/pdfplus/2232929.pdf?acceptTC=true

Silvia Bellezza - "Hubris and Catharsis, The trade-off between anticipation and memory"

See you all later,

Laura

Announced on 27 April 2011  2:22  p.m. by Laura Ralston

14.137 papers and presentations

Hi All,

To follow up on Drazen's comments in class today, please send me an email by midnight Sunday 24th April letting me know if you are taking the course for credit and whether you are an undergraduate. If you are a graduate student please also email me the topic for your short presentation and whether you would like to present with another student.

The deadlines for the papers are 13th May (if you want a grade for this semester), or 15th September (perhaps more relevant for graduate students).

Thanks!

Laura (lralston@mit.edu)

Announced on 20 April 2011  10:56  p.m. by Laura Ralston

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ON CLASS LOCATION

Tomorrow at 4PM please go to room 3015, building 46 (Brain and Cognitive Sciences), to hear Roy Baumeister.

The title is: "New Directions and Surprises in Self-Regulation Research."

This replaces our regular sesssion. We have already covered some of Baumeister's work in the session on self-control (3/30).

There are no readings for tomorrow, but you might take a look at his website, http://www.psy.fsu.edu/faculty/baumeister.dp.html.

Announced on 12 April 2011  8:36  p.m. by Laura Ralston

Time and Decision chapters

I have scanned chapters 5-7, 9, 16, of Time and Decision, and posted them to the stellar website, in case any of you had trouble accessing the book.

Announced on 30 March 2011  11:53  a.m. by Laura Ralston