Behavioral Economics

10 primes originate from Behavioral Economics. 12 more draw from it as a secondary origin.

Primary members (10)

Primes whose canonical origin is Behavioral Economics.

• Bounded Rationality — Limited decision capacity.
• Commitment Device — A self-imposed constraint that binds one's own future choices.
• Herding Behavior — Mimicking others.
• Information Cascade — The sequential dynamic in which actors copy earlier actors' visible choices and suppress their own private signals, driving collective convergence that can be confidently wrong.
• Loss Aversion — Losses felt stronger than gains.
• Regulatory Capture — Regulated agents gain influence over institution redirecting it.
• Satisficing — Accept good-enough solution.
• Sunk Cost and Irreversible Commitment — Expended resources create psychological barriers to reversal.
• Temporal Inconsistency and Preference Reversals — Preference orderings reverse as decision horizon approaches.
• Value Commensuration — Translate heterogeneous values into common metric for comparison.

Also draws from Behavioral Economics (12)

Primes whose canonical origin is elsewhere, but who list Behavioral Economics among their alternate origin domains.

• Anchoring — Overweight initial info.
• Decision Fatigue — Reduced decision quality over time.
• Escalation of Commitment — Persist beyond justification.
• Fading — Gradual withdrawal of instructional support as competence grows.
• Framing — Presentation shapes perception.
• Heuristic — Mental shortcuts.
• Regret — Disvalue from comparing an outcome against a better forgone alternative.
• Risk Aversion — Preference for certainty.
• Self Control — Overriding immediate impulses in service of longer-term goals.
• Solidarity — Shared commitment and mutual support within a group.
• Time Preference (Discounting Future) — Present vs future value.
• Winner's Curse — Winning a common-value contest is itself evidence of overpayment.