Behavioral economics in film: Insights for educators

Marie Briguglio, Charity-Joy Acchiardo, Dirk Mateer and Wayne Geerling
Additional contact information
Charity-Joy Acchiardo: Department of Economics, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Dirk Mateer: Department of Economics, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy, 2020, vol. 4, issue 1, 17-28

Abstract: Behavioral economics is an increasingly prominent field within economics and we review the case for its incorporation into undergraduate Economics curricula. We argue that behavioral findings can inform the teaching template itself and (economics) education policy more generally. The pedagogical and behavioral literature informs us that learners are more likely to recall economic content when it is presented as a narrative than when it is couched in abstract models. Film is one of the most evolved forms of story-telling, and its use (along with other media) enables learners to master a concept more quickly. This paper presents a database of 30 short film and media scenes and three detailed lesson plans that may be used as jumping-off points for instructors who wish to incorporate behavioral economics concepts alongside the rational-agent model of economic behavior.

Keywords: behavioral economics; teaching; pedagogy; undergraduate; policy; media (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A12 A20 A22 D90 G40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
http://sabeconomics.org/journal/RePEc/beh/JBEPv1/articles/JBEP-4-1-2.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:beh:jbepv1:v:4:y:2020:i:1:p:17-28

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy is currently edited by Michelle Baddeley

More articles in Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy from Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SABE ().