本课程把心理学的观点纳入到经济学的行为模型之中。课程讨论了标准经济学模型的局限性，并且纵览了了解人们偏好、认知以及行为的心理学实验方法。课程主题包括：信任、复仇、公平、急躁、冲动、有限理性、学习、强化、经典条件作用、回避损失、过度自信、自助偏差、认知失调、利他主义、主观幸福感、享乐适应。课程还讨论了一些经济学现象和概念，例如均衡、理性选择、收益最大化、贝叶斯信念、博弈理论、不确定条件下行为等。
This course integrates psychological insights into economic models of behavior. It discusses the limitations of standard economic models and surveys the ways in which psychological experiments have been used to learn about preferences, cognition, and behavior. Topics include: trust, vengeance, fairness, impatience, impulsivity, bounded rationality, learning, reinforcement, classical conditioning, loss-aversion, over-confidence, self-serving biases, cognitive dissonance, altruism, subjective well-being, and hedonic adaptation. Economic concepts such as equilibrium, rational choice, utility maximization, Bayesian beliefs, game theory, and behavior under uncertainty are discussed in light of these phenomena.
