When I was a teenager, I learned something important about human behavior just by listening to Cubs baseball games on the radio. I learned that the pain of losing tends to be greater than the pleasure ...

The Nobel economics prize has been awarded to Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago for his contributions to behavioral economics. The 9-million-kronor ($1.1-million) prize was awarded to the ...

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 ...

“Behavioral economics is just economists stealing from psychology,” Thaler joked. He went on to explain that one way behavioral economics is distinctive is that is operates in the context of markets.

University of Chicago’s Richard H. Thaler, one of the founders of behavioral finance, was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics for shedding light on how human weaknesses such as a lack of ...

It takes effort to move a mouse, point the arrow toward a headline, and click down on a button. As a writer, I know this is true–I search on Google and read headlines all day, and I write headlines ...