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  2. Mental accounting - Wikipedia

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    Mental accounting (or psychological accounting) is a model of consumer behaviour developed by Richard Thaler that attempts to describe the process whereby people code, categorize and evaluate economic outcomes. [2]

  3. Behavioral economics - Wikipedia

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    Mental accounting is a behavioral bias that causes one to separate money into different categories known as mental accounts either based on the source or the intention of the money. [58] Anchoring. Anchoring describes when people have a mental reference point with which they compare results to. For example, a person who anticipates that the ...

  4. 5 Ways How You Value Money Affects Your Finances - AOL

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    Investors value money differently based on their experiences, goals and beliefs. This process is known as mental accounting, and it often affects how we budget and spend our money. Mental ...

  5. Girl math - Wikipedia

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    Mental accounting theory helps form the basis for girl math. The main premise of it is the organization of money into different "mental buckets", such as one mental bucket for paying rent and one mental bucket for going shopping. This affects how one perceives financial gains and losses in relative instead of absolute terms.

  6. Tax withholding - Wikipedia

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    Mental accounting. Tax withholding influences how individuals mentally account for their income and expenses. The automatic deduction of taxes from paychecks ...

  7. Richard Thaler - Wikipedia

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    Richard H. Thaler (/ ˈ θ eɪ l ər /; [1] born September 12, 1945) is an American economist and the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

  8. Moral Injury: The Grunts - The Huffington Post

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    In contrast to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which springs from fear, moral injury is a violation of what each of us considers right or wrong. The diagnosis of PTSD has been defined and officially endorsed since 1980 by the mental health community, and those suffering from it have earned broad public sympathy and understanding.

  9. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    Explanations include information-processing rules (i.e., mental shortcuts), called heuristics, that the brain uses to produce decisions or judgments. Biases have a variety of forms and appear as cognitive ("cold") bias, such as mental noise, [5] or motivational ("hot") bias, such as when beliefs are distorted by wishful thinking. Both effects ...