The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour: Edition 2

Alan Lewis

Feb 2018 · Cambridge University Press

About this ebook

There has recently been an escalated interest in the interface between psychology and economics. The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour is a valuable reference dedicated to improving our understanding of the economic mind and economic behaviour. Employing empirical methods - including laboratory and field experiments, observations, questionnaires and interviews - the Handbook provides comprehensive coverage of theory and method, financial and consumer behaviour, the environment and biological perspectives. This second edition also includes new chapters on topics such as neuroeconomics, unemployment, debt, behavioural public finance, and cutting-edge work on fuzzy trace theory and robots, cyborgs and consumption. With distinguished contributors from a variety of countries and theoretical backgrounds, the Handbook is an important step forward in the improvement of communications between the disciplines of psychology and economics that will appeal to academic researchers and graduates in economic psychology and behavioral economics.

About the author

Alan Lewis is Professor of Economic Psychology at the University of Bath. He has been publishing in the area of psychology and economics for nearly forty years, and his journal articles and books have covered such topics as socially responsible investing; ethics, altruism and economic affairs; tax evasion and fiscal preferences; environmental attitudes and behaviour; economic socialisation; and credit and debt. His books include Morals, Markets and Money (2002) and, with Paul Webley and Adrian Furnham, The New Economic Mind: The Social Psychology of Economic Behaviour (1995). Alan Lewis was also editor of the Journal of Economic Psychology from 1996 to 2000. He has presented papers at international conferences and seminars in many countries, including the USA, the UK, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark and Belgium.