Sökning: "Gustav Tinghög"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden Gustav Tinghög.
1. The Art of Saying No : The Economics and Ethics of Healthcare Rationing
Sammanfattning : It follows from resource scarcity that some form of healthcare rationing is unavoidable. This implies that potentially beneficial medical treatments must be denied to patients to avoid unacceptable sacrifices in other areas of society. LÄS MER
2. Deciding Fast and Slow : How Intuitive and Reflective Thinking Influence Decision Making
Sammanfattning : Paper I “Intuition and cooperation reconsidered”: Does intuition make people more cooperative? Rand et al. (Rand, Greene, & Nowak, 2012) reported increased cooperation in social dilemmas after forcing individuals to decide quickly. LÄS MER
3. Pain, Touch, and Decision Making : Behavioral and Brain Responses to Affective Somatosensory Stimulation
Sammanfattning : Stimulation of sensory nerves can give rise to powerful affective experiences. Noxious stimuli can give rise to pain, an unpleasant experience which, in turn, causes suffering and constitutes a major societal burden. Touch, on the other hand, can feel pleasant and plays an important role in social relationships and well-being. LÄS MER
4. Financial literacy, motivated reasoning, and gender : essays in behavioral economics
Sammanfattning : I wrote this thesis to create a better understanding of how individual characteristics influence our feelings, our behavior and our way of interpreting information. My focus is on financial behavior and financial information, however I also consider a political context. LÄS MER
5. Social and Economic Factors in Decision Making under Uncertainty : Five Essays in Behavioral Economics
Sammanfattning : The objective of this thesis is to improve the understanding of human behavior that goes beyond monetary rewards. In particular, it investigates social influences in individual’s decision making in situations that involve coordination, competition, and deciding for others. Further, it compares how monetary and social outcomes are perceived. LÄS MER
