Behavioural Economics

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AS - Level Economics Fichas sobre Behavioural Economics, creado por Tara Pugal el 07/07/2016.
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Bounded Rationality decisions made by humans cannot be entirely rational because of limits they face
Limits of bounded rationality (4) information failure time limits limits of human brain impact of emotions
Bounded self-control consumer over-consume even when it makes sense to stop
What cause biases in decision making? (4) rules of thumb anchoring availability bias social norms
Rules of thumb (heuristics) mental shortcut for decision making to help make a quick, satisfactory but maybe not perfect answer to a complex decision
Anchoring the use of (often) irrelevant information as a reference point for helping to make an estimate of an unknown piece of information
Availability bias happens when people judge the likelihood of an event or frequency of it's occurrence by the ease with which examples and instances come to mind
Social norms accepted by the majority of a given group of people
Altruism people behave with more kindness and fairness than would be the case if they behaved rationally
Choice architecture when the environment in which someone must make a decision has been carefully designed in order to try and influence that decision
Framing where consumers are persuaded to make a decision based of the consequences (whether positive or negative)
Nudges alternatives to standard intervention that influence people's choices
Default choice the option chosen in a consumer does nothing or does not make an active choice
Describe decision making system 1 automatic, uses short-cuts to make quick decisions often based of common sense estimates and emotional reactions to choice
Describe decision making system 2 more deliberate process using conscious thinking and reflection much slower and more easily manipulated
Herd behaviour making decisions based on the behaviour of others due to social pressures
Partitioning a technique where consumption can be reduced by packaging something into smaller amounts
Restricted choice consumers find it difficult to make a decision when they have lots of options (because of bounded rationality) so restricting their choices may help consumers actually make a decision (more efficient)
Mandated choice where people must make a decision in advance whether they want to participate in something - they are required by law to make this choice
Zero-price effect where the D curve for a good changes dramatically once the P of a good is 0
Confirmation bias the tendency for people to only remember point that support their views
Curse of knowledge the fact that more informed people have an understanding of how lesser-informed people might think
Endowment effect where people often demand more to give up something that they would be willing to give in the first place
IKEA effect when people over-price an object that they have either fully or partially assembled themselves, regardless of the outcome
Planning fallacy the tendency to (significantly) underestimate how long it will take to complete a task
Zero-risk bias the human preference of reducing an already small risk to 0 rather than reducing a high risk by a large amount
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