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Psychology and the economic mind : cognitive processes & conceptualization / Robert L. Leahy.
Van Pelt Library RC480.5 .L369 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leahy, Robert L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Risk-taking (Psychology)--Economic aspects.
- Risk-taking (Psychology).
- Decision making.
- Cognitive therapy.
- Economics--Psychological aspects.
- Economics.
- Cognition.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer Pub., [2003]
- Contents:
- Part I Portfolio Theory and Decision-Making
- 1 An Investment Model of Depressive Resistance 7
- 2 Decision-Making and Mania 25
- 3 Depressive Decision-Making: Validation of the Portfolio Theory Model 48
- 4 Decision-Making and Personality Disorders 70
- Part II Pessimism and Self-Limitation
- 5 Strategic Self-Limitation 93
- 6 Sunk Costs and Resistance to Change 113
- 7 Pessimism as Risk-Management 130
- Part III Acquisition and Dissatisfaction
- 8 Insatiability 141
- 9 Modifying the Cycle of Dissatisfaction 161
- 10 Cognitive Therapy on Wall Street: Schemas and Scripts of Invulnerability 175
- Part IV Development of Conceptions of Inequality
- 11 The Development of Concepts of Economic and Social Inequality 193.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index.
- ISBN:
- 082615042X
- OCLC:
- 50041131
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