The road not taken: how psychology was removed from economics, and how it might be brought back*

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What have economists learned about valuing nature? A review essay (2013, background): “In the history of economic analysis, the exclusive focus on the self-regarding individual as the unit of analysis represented a sharp break with the past in the sense that it removed psychology from economics (Bruni and Sugden, 2007).”
As-If Behavioral Economics: Neoclassical Economics in Disguise? (2010, unknown): “Bruni and Sugden (2007) point out the similar methodological defense needed to rationalize the common normative interpretations in both neoclassical and behavioral economics: The essential idea behind the discovered preference hypothesis is that rational-choice theory is descriptive of the…”
Hedonic adaptation and the role of decision and experience utility in public policy (2008, background): “However, the Benthamite notion of utility lost popularity in economics in the early 20th century, due in part to the inability to measure happiness and in part to a lack of faith that people actually were maximizing happiness (Lewin, 1996; Loewenstein, 1992; Bruni and Sugden, 2007).”
The Philosophy of Economics: Neuroeconomics: Using Neuroscience to Make Economic Predictions (2007, unknown): “Around the turn of the nineteenth century, neoclassical economists made a clear methodological choice, to treat the mind as a black box and ignore its details for the purpose of economic theory (Bruni and Sugden, 2007).”