Prospect Theory: An Overview

This video explains Prospect Theory, one of the foundational contributions of Behavioral Economics. I go over three important parts to Prospect Theory: (1) Loss aversion, (2) Reference point origin and (3) risk-seeking behavior in the negative realm / risk-averse behavior in the positive realm.
0:26 - Three Features
1:48 - Loss Aversion
5:57 - Reference point / Expectations
9:25 -

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  • @nonsense7375
    @nonsense73754 жыл бұрын

    This video surpassed my EXPECTATION!

  • @Adam-lv5yi
    @Adam-lv5yi3 жыл бұрын

    You explained the concept better in 13 minutes than my lecturer managed in 3 hours. Thankyou!

  • @Ali-md4md
    @Ali-md4md3 жыл бұрын

    Hands down, the best explanation of Prospect Theory. Thanks Ashley!

  • @cpuzz8264
    @cpuzz82645 ай бұрын

    I never comment on how well things are explained in youtube videos but I had to on this one. Great job!

  • @tjsmind
    @tjsmind3 жыл бұрын

    What a fascinating concept. Impeccable explanation!

  • @n0_n0
    @n0_n02 жыл бұрын

    These videos are incredibly well done and helpful! Great work and I hope you keep them coming!!

  • @jeffreygoh4647
    @jeffreygoh46473 жыл бұрын

    Explanation clearer than some professors’. Thank you.

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    @stevesimpson59943 жыл бұрын

    That was an exceptional summary. Thank you :-)

  • @JoshKoaster
    @JoshKoaster3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for making the explanation so clear! :)

  • @rulz4us
    @rulz4us4 жыл бұрын

    You explain things perfectly. Thanks for the videos.

  • @cynthiaannecchini1351
    @cynthiaannecchini1351 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your brilliant explanation! I spent hours reading my notes and listened to lecturer online and still not clear. I understood it after listening for 5 minutes, great work Ashley!

  • @massimilianomanzini1726
    @massimilianomanzini17263 жыл бұрын

    Ashley you literally saved me. So clear, thanks a lot

  • @michaeljbuckley
    @michaeljbuckley3 жыл бұрын

    Explained the risk seeking in loss aversion excellently.

  • @phillipnormann1319
    @phillipnormann13192 жыл бұрын

    Great video! Thanks for the easy explanations and practical examples 😊

  • @maksymrudnichenko5688
    @maksymrudnichenko56883 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for a clear and easy-to understand explanation!

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    @mayankkumarmittal2 жыл бұрын

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    @Sindbad2323 жыл бұрын

    This is mindblowing ngl

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    @Christinnaaaaa4 жыл бұрын

    Amazing! Thank you so much for this!

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    @justinjohnson86665 ай бұрын

    Wow thank you soooo much you explained this concept so well that I am not gonna forget this for sure , god I wish I had a teacher like you, your students are the luckiest.

  • @stephenkimani7150
    @stephenkimani71505 ай бұрын

    Thanks for explaining this so precisely!

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    @anthonylawton53634 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant - thanks for the hard work :)

  • @abdikafimohamud2931
    @abdikafimohamud29312 жыл бұрын

    This is so clearly explained! This video should have had a lot more views than this

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    @NoOne-qd2yp3 ай бұрын

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  • @Alejmen009
    @Alejmen0097 ай бұрын

    Thank you. The examples helped a lot.

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    @marcuscitoandjuliaprunk Жыл бұрын

    that was so good - thank you & very helpful!

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    @annadovha6998 Жыл бұрын

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    @patrickvanderlinde52833 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! really great content

  • @minimonie9825
    @minimonie982524 күн бұрын

    Very informative. Thank you so much!

  • @ashishkiift
    @ashishkiift4 жыл бұрын

    Ashley .. I am so fortunate to have stumbled upon this .. You are such an incredibly gifted teacher .. wanted to use this concept for a consumer behaviour problem .. is there a way to connect for further questions .. Thanks

  • @ozoxxx
    @ozoxxx Жыл бұрын

    I would say that people fair loses more than they desire gains. not that they hate loses more than they love gains. there is quite difference and since we are talking about subjectivity and emotions, this should take into account. Thanks for the content.

  • @rajarshimajumder6659
    @rajarshimajumder66593 жыл бұрын

    Awesome explanation!!

  • @ashwinsivakumar13
    @ashwinsivakumar133 жыл бұрын

    clear and concise explanation. thanks

  • @janlauterbach8204
    @janlauterbach8204 Жыл бұрын

    Great video, super useful

  • @sun-riseshetty556
    @sun-riseshetty556 Жыл бұрын

    Marvelous... Well explained..

  • @akashagarwal9747
    @akashagarwal9747 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent explanation Ashley

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    @aziahabdshakur3 жыл бұрын

    this is very well explained! tq so much!

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    @alexandrav.paredes5964 Жыл бұрын

    This is very good, thank you.

  • @andrewwei8087
    @andrewwei80873 жыл бұрын

    great explanation thank you!

  • @krullsull
    @krullsull Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for explaining this in such easy to understand manner. My MSc prof went too much of a complicated direction

  • @anakagungbaguswirayuda9593
    @anakagungbaguswirayuda9593 Жыл бұрын

    wow, this explanation answer a lot of social and psychological questions in human behavior. At least, the ones that I think of

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    @rumila3722 жыл бұрын

    This is amazing!!

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    @jiayisong31193 жыл бұрын

    really great!thank you!

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    @rnsbakhietrm59143 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. Very Informative

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    @ibrahimmustafa46923 жыл бұрын

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    @bongoflava112 жыл бұрын

    Someone who can actually explain stuff. Hats off to you and keep on doing what you do best

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    @aaronrey26583 жыл бұрын

    Awesome! Ashley, you should consider breaking down the 1000 most important econ concepts in videos, labs, data, etc. and shut the field down completely:) from the 10,000 average to well below avg. professors that have butchered the learning pedagogy in the field the last 40yrs.. you can be the Khan Academy of Econ.. Seriously.. you could teach a course in how to teach econ..

  • @bamdadsalarieh7125
    @bamdadsalarieh71254 жыл бұрын

    Nice explanation!

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    @JoaoVitorBRgomes4 жыл бұрын

    Great. Kind regards from São Paulo.

  • @sun-riseshetty556
    @sun-riseshetty5562 ай бұрын

    beautiful explanation...

  • @NateGPT
    @NateGPT3 жыл бұрын

    So well done

  • @Samtaztic99
    @Samtaztic993 жыл бұрын

    How does Prospect Theory differ from Expected Utility Theory? Also, for confirmation, if I am correct: 1) The function being relatively steep in the loss zone and relativelt horizontal in the gains zone explains loss aversion. 2) The 0,0 interval is the reference point. 3) The function being convex in the loss area and concave in the gains area explains risk aversion and risk seeking behaviour in different situations. Please correct me if I am wrong, thank you.

  • @alfredarus3043
    @alfredarus30432 жыл бұрын

    Amazing!! Thank you

  • @ResemeeC
    @ResemeeC3 жыл бұрын

    really helpful thanks!!

  • @douglasmutua6967
    @douglasmutua69673 ай бұрын

    Great explanation

  • @thisisnotmyrealname6046
    @thisisnotmyrealname6046 Жыл бұрын

    Day before the exam, you just saved my grade!

  • @hiteshthakkar7716
    @hiteshthakkar77162 ай бұрын

    Similarly, Christmas bonus : most can relate with expectation management by bosses before performance payouts ;-)

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    @amyjennthg123 Жыл бұрын

    THANK YOU!

  • @mbogocapital
    @mbogocapital Жыл бұрын

    Good teacher.

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    @titusmazima4187 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much

  • @muskduh
    @muskduh2 жыл бұрын

    thanks so much

  • @kmkcorner
    @kmkcorner Жыл бұрын

    Wow, thank you.

  • @tarekz4505
    @tarekz45053 жыл бұрын

    Thank you 🙏

  • @mrana5648
    @mrana56482 жыл бұрын

    Good explanation Ashley! Could you pls shed light on Editing and Evaluation phase of the theory? Thanks…

  • @thuhuongle4976
    @thuhuongle49763 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for your videos! Your examples help me a lot in understanding the materials. In this particular video, though, I haven't understood how the mug-pen example connects to the graph. According to my understanding, holding the assigned mug or pen makes the person more attached to it (thinking it is more valuable). Hence, they wouldn't trade it for something that value less (in their perspective). I do not see how this act of trading is like moving along the graph. If it is, then what the x-axis represents here?

  • @AshleyHodgson

    @AshleyHodgson

    3 жыл бұрын

    With the mug-pen example, people have lower value for a mug that they don't own (willingness to pay someone else to buy a mug: $3) than they do for a mug they own (willingness to sell a mug that is theirs: $5 required to give it up). So, if you move "1 mug" to the right of the origin, the utility on the graph might be $3 (or 3 utils), while "1 mug" to the left of the origin will put you at -$5 (or -5 utils).

  • @thuhuongle4976

    @thuhuongle4976

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@@AshleyHodgsonAh, it's clear now. Thank you. We expect people to value the mug and the pen equally on average. This would likely happen if we ask them to choose between pen and mug without assigning since they are framing both as gains. With assigning, however, we change the reference point, making one a gain and the other a loss. Since people do not want to trade, we know that the graph must look like that: loss is steeper than gain.

  • @lukemurray7285
    @lukemurray72852 жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @user-or3zv2xl8r
    @user-or3zv2xl8rАй бұрын

    This covers the value function i propsect theory but not probability warping which is also important

  • @user-tm3wu6fh1d
    @user-tm3wu6fh1d4 ай бұрын

    Very good

  • @faizaahmed6869
    @faizaahmed68692 жыл бұрын

    its a good explanation maam. can we measure prospect theory as a secondary data what are those variables?

  • @DhanAadian
    @DhanAadian Жыл бұрын

    good stuff

  • @plinden
    @plinden4 жыл бұрын

    Preferring not to trade the pen for the mug because you have it, makes sense since you know how you feel about the pen, but you do not know quite how you feel about having the mug. It is not that these are not phenomena. It is the further declaration about what is rational that is questionable. The extra price you add to your bundle, is for covering the cost/risk of learning about other bundles/perhaps being wrong about its utility.

  • @syremusic_

    @syremusic_

    3 жыл бұрын

    Great point! Can you recommend some material to learn more about this?

  • @plinden

    @plinden

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@syremusic_ Thanks, let me get back to you. The general point here is that biases are part of our nature, and since they are, we should not be too quick to dismiss them as irrational. They may be rules of thumb that serves a greater rationality of survival. Being willing to trade something you like and know about, for something you have less information about may be a rational strategy from this perspective even if it looks arbitrary or irrational in an instance such as the one described.

  • @StephanieHughesDesign
    @StephanieHughesDesign Жыл бұрын

    What Behavioral Economics textbooks are using for these courses? Thaler, Wilkinson, et al?

  • @AshleyHodgson

    @AshleyHodgson

    Жыл бұрын

    At the moment, I just use Thinking Fast & Slow, Thaler's Misbehaving and a couple of others in that vein. The first few times I taught it, I used the Wilkinson and Klaes textbook (www.amazon.com/Introduction-Behavioral-Economics-Nick-Wilkinson/dp/113752412X), which I thought was very helpful to begin with as an overview in the field.

  • @StephanieHughesDesign

    @StephanieHughesDesign

    Жыл бұрын

    @@AshleyHodgson Excellent 👍. Thank you!

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    @houghtonstreet33922 жыл бұрын

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  • @hiteshthakkar7716
    @hiteshthakkar77162 ай бұрын

    Replace pen and mug example with stocks of 2 diff cos, and everyone can relate

  • @Ksnieup
    @Ksnieup3 жыл бұрын

    Damn I thought I was smart by taking the sure bet😂