“Attempts to improve decision-making are unlikely to succeed without an understanding of how and why people currently … make choices. In this accessible and fascinating book, Konstantinos Katsikopoulos shows how mathematical models of decision … heuristic decision-making models, compares the models on various dimensions such as predictive power and transparency, and …

In this thesis I present three essays in which the influence of heuristics on individual decision making is analyzed …’ decision can have on the disposition effect heuristic when they decide on behalf of others. In chapter three, the effect of the … prenatal androgen exposure on loss aversion, as an essential driver of heuristics in financial economics, is analyzed. In …

consistent with widely-accepted dual process theories of cognition. Specifically, I suggest that political ignorance can be …