David Dickinson is an experimental and behavioral economist.
Economic theory views people as rational and self-interested. However,
in recent decades experiments have shown how psychological biases
influence decision making, radically changing economics.
In this podcast expect to learn about how behavioral economics is
bridging economics with psychology, about why economists modeled people
as fully rational, the reasons for the confirmation bias, and more...
00:00 - What is Behavioral Economics?
04:34 - History of Rationality and Selfishness in Economics
09:34 - confirmation bias
22:30 - Dark Personality Personality and Behavior Differences
33:00 - Big 5 Personality and Behavior