Economists and psychologists work together to understand how human behavior impacts people's decision-making in the marketplace.

Consumer optimism, as measured by the University of Michigan consumer sentiment index, has rebounded this year to its highest levels since 2007. Overall, this is very positive news about rebounding ...

The field of behavioral economics blends ideas from psychology and economics, and it can provide valuable insight that individuals are not behaving in their own best interests. Behavioral economics ...

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine calls for increased collaboration between behavioral economists and policymakers and examines the future research ...

Principles of behavioral economics are increasingly being applied in healthcare, especially as pay-for-value reimbursement models become more prominent. Behavioral economics could drive change where ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who won a Nobel Prize in economics for his insights into how ingrained neurological biases influence decision making, died Wednesday at the age of ...

A founding father of behavioral economics — a research school that has popularized the practice of “nudging” people into making decisions that authorities deem to be in their best interests — has won ...

Michelle Baddeley is Director and Research Professor at the Institute for Choice, University of South Australia. Today, it seems as though everyone is talking about behavioral economics. Governments ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a physician and behavioral scientist at Duke University. Losing weight is incredibly difficult. People who have put on ...