From the Book - Revised and expanded edition.
Introduction: How an injury led me to irrationality and to the research described here --
The truth about relativity : why everything is relative, even when it shouldn't be --
The fallacy of supply and demand : why the price of pearls, and everything else, is up in the air --
The cost of zero cost : why we often pay too much when we pay nothing --
The cost of social norms : why we are happy to do things, but not when we are paid to do them --
The influence of arousal : why hot is much hotter than we realize --
The problem of procrastination and self-control : why we can't make ourselves do what we want to do --
The high price of ownership : why we overvalue what we have --
Keeping doors open : why options distract us from our main objective --
The effect of expectations : why the mind gets what it expects --
The power of price : why a 50-cent aspirin can do what a penny aspirin can't --
The context of our character, part I : why we are dishonest, and what we can do about it --
The context of our character, part II : why dealing with cash makes us more honest --
Beer and free lunches : what is behavioral economics, and where are the free lunches?