I did the research for my doctoral dissertation in the years 1965 -1968. One of the most helpful authors were Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. Tversky died in 1996 and Kahneman died last week. You might well have never heard of these two men but in certain fields of thought, they are quite famous.
Kahneman's book "Thinking: Fast and Slow" is about the same area as my dissertation. Kahneman is sometimes said to have been an important founder of the subject of "behavioral economics", what makes people do what they do with their buying and selling. My degree is in the subject of "educational research methods". Deciding what to teach, deciding how to teach that material/subject and deciding how to assess the learning that takes place can be considered to be a matter of planning and expenditure of human energy and communication and assessment.
