Behavioral economics provides a framework to understand when and how people make mistakes. The new field of behavioral economics blends insights of psychology and economics, and provides some valuable ...

Several years ago, at Monte Carlo, I watched a giddy woman decked in pearls and diamonds winning all evening at the blackjack table, ultimately collecting stacks of chips worth almost 8,000 euros. At ...

Much of the conversation around addiction swings between two worldviews. On one side is the belief that addiction is a brain ...

Adolescents with an internet addiction undergo changes in the brain that could lead to additional addictive behaviour and tendencies, finds a new study by UCL researchers. The findings, published in ...

Aversion therapy (AT) is a behavioral therapy that involves repeatedly pairing an undesirable behavior with an unpleasant experience with the goal of discouraging the undesirable behavior. Other names ...