Behavioral Economics Courses and Certifications

Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

6 ratings at edX

This course provides a perspective to understanding decision making. It will equip the learners with tools to better understand these deep psychological processes. It will discuss the topics like loss

• edX
• 6 weeks, 3-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Behavioral Economics: When Psychology and Economics Collide

37 ratings at The Great Courses Plus

Gain a deeper awareness of how you make decisions, and what steps you can take to make better ones, improving both your financial future and your overall happiness.

• The Great Courses Plus
• 11 hours 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Principles of Behavioral Economics

Explore how psychology reshapes economic decision-making through heuristics, biases, prospect theory, mental accounting, and intertemporal choice.

• Swayam
• 12 weeks
• Available until Oct 9, 2026
• Free Online Course

Narrative Economics

916 ratings at Coursera

Stories spread like epidemics and move the economy: explore seven propositions of narrative economics and nine perennial narratives on AI, stock market bubbles, and job insecurity.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Behavioral Economics - Lecture 25

Explore behavioral economics with Prof. Gruber, combining economics and psychology to understand real-world human behavior and decision-making patterns.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

實驗經濟學 (Experimental Economics: Behavioral Game Theory)

81 ratings at Coursera

透過線上實驗與論文分析，探討人們在社會偏好、談判及多層次賽局中的行為如何驗證經濟理論。

• Coursera
• 9 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Behavioral Finance - The Role of Psychology in Financial Decision-Making

28 ratings

How psychological biases and decision theories explain volatility and irrational behavior in financial markets.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Psychology and Economics

Examine how behavior departs from standard economic assumptions: time, risk, reference-dependent and social preferences, limited attention, beliefs, nudges, and policy design for behavioral agents.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Behavioral Economics and Neuromarketing

2914 ratings at Udemy

Learn how to affect the decision making flows and increase sales/usage of your products. Make better decisions in life.

• Udemy
• 1 hour 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Dan Ariely on Changing Customer Behavior

Apply behavioral economics to customer decisions: identify the actions customers must take, trigger product use, design products people will pay for, and run behavior change experiments.

• Acumen Academy
• 10 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Psychology and Economics, Spring 2020

1 rating

Explore how time, risk, social preferences, biases, and mental health shape economic behavior and policy.

• YouTube
• 1 day 5 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

A Beginner's Guide to Irrational Behavior

553 ratings

Examine why people defy rational economic theory: irrational money and investment habits, dishonesty by honest people, incentives at work, self-control, and emotion in decisions.

• Coursera
• No Longer Offered
• Paid Course

Bounded Rationality: Rule-of-Thumb Consumers and Computational Costs - Lecture 21

Explore rule-of-thumb consumers, computational costs, and advertising models in industrial organization. Gain insights into bounded rationality and its impact on purchasing decisions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Bounded Rationality in Industrial Organization - Lecture 20

Explore bounded rationality and its impact on decision-making processes. Gain insights into how individuals make satisfactory choices rather than optimal ones in complex situations.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Behavioral Finance

4588 ratings at Coursera

Spot the mental shortcuts behind money mistakes: examine rational choice axioms, distorted probabilities, and heuristic-driven biases to improve spending, saving, and investing decisions.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course