Excellent summary of lots of interesting psychology + economics research.
I haven’t taken a ton of psych classes, but social psychology was one of my favorites. It’s fascinating how irrational we are. And to know that some people with backgrounds in psychology enter the business world and go into marketing is sort of terrifying. Advertising is one of the fields I would least like to work in; while I can see how the creative/graphic design part of it may be interesting, I just don’t think I could deal with manipulating people into buying whatever shit it is I’m being paid to peddle. I once had a job selling candy at concerts, and I genuinely felt bad about selling people overpriced garbage. I will use my psychology degree for good.
