SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY

PSY3002 Special topics in Psychology II

Introduction to Economic Psychology
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About the seminar course

Here is

a copy of the entry about the course in the department's Final Year undergraduate handbook
list of topics to be covered week by week this session, with links to details of the reading associated with each topic. Lists for some topics may be last year's version - check the revision date on each one. This page also includes the list of titles for assessed essays.

About economic psychology

Here is some information about economic psychology in general:

economic psychology research in the department
the department's MSc in Economic Psychology
the Journal of Economic Psychology
IDEAS, a huge data base of working papers in economics - this uses JEL codes;
Advances in Consumer Research short easy-to-read papers in consumer psychology
IAREP: the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology
epTEN: the Economic Psychology Training and Education Network
SASE, the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
SABE, the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics.
the Bath University Centre for Economic Psychology
the ESRC's Economic Beliefs and Behaviour research programme, and a list of publications resulting from it
ELSE, the ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution
The Joseph Rowntree foundation, whose web pages include reports on the research they fund, much of which is of interest to economic psychologists
The Institute for Empirical Research in Economics Working paper series

JEL codes

If you're looking for information about economic psychology is resources designed by economists, they will often use "JEL codes". These are the subject classification codes used by the Journal of Economic Literature, the standard abstracting service for economists. The full classification system is on the web at http://www.aeaweb.org/journal/elclasjn.html. Among the subject codes likely to be useful to economic psychologists are the following: