PSY3002 Special topics in Psychology II
This course will be given in the First Semester (October to January).
Meetings will be in the Washington Singer Laboratories. Dates and rooms
for meetings will be announced by early October; in 1999/2000 they will
be on Thursdays from 11 to 1 in room 241.
Programme of topics
The course will mainly be organized around a life-span approach. The current
draft of the programme is as follows: links are to the most recent updates
of relevant reading lists, which may not be the final versions for this
year's course.
1. An introduction to the study of Economic Psychology
2. Rationality
3. The early years: Economic
socialization
4. Adolescence
and young adulthood: Becoming an economic adult
5. Family
economic psychology
6. Economic behaviour in maturity I: Buying,
saving, investing and owning
7. Economic behaviour in maturity II: Work,
leisure and unemployment
8. Economic
psychology in old age
9. The psychology of money
10. The
economics of happiness:
...Christmas break...
11. Revision seminar
Books
The following sources are generally useful. Some of them are referred to
repeatedly in the reading lists, using the name or initials shown after
each one:
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Earl, P.E., & Kemp, S. (1999). The Elgar Companion
to consumer research and economic psychology. Edward Elgar (Elgar)
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Etzioni, A. (1988). The moral dimension. Free Press
(Etzioni)
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Furnham, A., & Argyle, M. (1998). The psychology
of money. Routledge (FA)
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Hargreaves Heap, S. et al, The theory of choice: A critical
guide. Blackwell (HH).......Roboro
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Lewis, A., Webley, P. & Furnham, A. (1995). The New
Economic Mind: The Social Psychology of Economic Behaviour. Harvester (LWF).
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Lane, R. E. (1991). The Market Experience. CUP. (Lane)
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Lea, S. E. G., Tarpy, R. M., Webley, P. (1987). The Individual
in the Economy. C.U.P. (LWT)
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Maital, S. (1982). Minds, Markets and Money. Basic Books.
(MMM) (introductory)
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Scitovsky, T. The Joyless Economy (O.U.P. 1976).
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Sloman, J. (1997). Economics (3rd edition).
Prentice-Hall (Sloman)
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Van Raajj, W. F., Van Veldhoven, G. M. M. & Warner,
Y.D. (1989). Handbook of Economic Psychology. Kluwer. (HEP)
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Webley, P., Burgoyne, C.B., Lea, S.E.G. & Young
, B.M. (in preparation). The Economic Psychology of Everyday Life. Routledge
(WBLY)
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The Journal of Economic Psychology. (JOEP).
Other abbreviations used in the reading lists:
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BJ: Bound Journal - shelved in the periodicals section of the library
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CJ: Current Journal - not available for loan, but may be read in the library
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TRC: available in the Temporary Reserve Collection
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Roboro: available in the Roborough reference collection, in the Old Library
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SEd: available in the School of Education Library, Heavitree Road campus
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Box: paper available in the Economic Psychology box in the Resource room
Essays
Students may write an essay under any of the following titles.
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"The foundations of economic behaviour are laid down in the teenage years".
Do you agree?
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Who gets into debt and why?
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To what extent can possessions make people happy?
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Does the psychology of money help us understand the possible futures of
money?
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Does experimental economics add to our understanding of individual economic
behaviour and if so, how?
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Is there any evidence that “mental accounts” play a major role in individuals’
money management?
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Evaluate the contributions to economic psychology of one or more of: Amitai
Etzioni, Richard Thaler, Robert Lane, George Katona, Gary Becker, Tibor
Scitovsky
What has economic anthropology got that economic psychology needs?
Stephen Lea, Paul
Webley
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