Abstract
This section outlines the increasing interest of the scientific community in economic psychology and behavioral economics as a means to answer questions about human decision making in an economic/consumer context. It gives a quick overview of the activities of important societies in the field, such as the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology and the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics, as well as periodicals devoted to psycho-economic research, including a categorization of papers published in the Journal of Economic Psychology in the period 1981–2010.
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