Economic Behavior Social Learning (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Maital, Sharone L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330803043 ISBN 13: 9781330803042

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how social learning shapes the way we save, delay rewards, and make economic choices.

This concise work introduces social learning theory and its view of motivation, then applies it to real questions about time preference and intertemporal decision making. Through a longitudinal study of Israeli youth, it shows how beliefs, trust, and past experiences influence our willingness to wait for larger rewards in education, health, and money. The book connects psychological insight with economic theory to explain why people differ in choosing present versus future benefits.

• Learn the key ideas of social learning theory and how expectancy and reinforcement shape behavior
• See how past experiences and social context influence time preference and delay of gratification
• Review a long-term study linking adolescence traits to later education and earnings
• Understand how a social-learning framework can enrich economic models of choice

Ideal for readers of psychology and economics who want a practical view of how people decide when to wait for rewards.

About this title

Product Description

Excerpt from Economic Behavior Social Learning The nature and evolution of the social learning approach to human behavior is described and summarized and its theoretical and empirical application to economic behavior in general, and to intertemporal choice in particular, is summarized. The actual and potential contribution of social learning theory to improving our understanding of economic choice is discussed. By way of example, results from a longitudinal panel study that began in 1975, focusing on delay of gratification and its relation to educational achievement, are described. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330803043
• ISBN 13: 9781330803042
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 30