心理学与市场

Psychology and the Market

American Economic Review · 2004
被引 104
人大 A+FT50ABS 4*

中文导读

指出实验室中的心理学发现(如前景理论、损失厌恶)在市场中往往受内生因素影响,因此经济学比心理学更能解释市场结果。

Abstract

Prospect theory, loss aversion, mental accounts, hyperbolic discounting, cues, and the endowment effect can all be seen as examples of situationalism -- the view that people isolate decisions and overweight immediate aspects of the situation relative to longer term concerns. But outside of the laboratory, emotionally-powerful situational factors -- frames, social influence, mental accounts -- are almost always endogenous and often the result of self-interested entrepreneurs. As such, laboratory work and, indeed, psychology more generally, gives us little guidance as to market outcomes. Economics provides a stronger basis for understanding the supply of emotionally-relevant situational variables. Paradoxically situationalism actually increases the relative importance of economics.

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