Thymology
In praxeology, thymology is the study of those human aspects that precede or cause purposeful human behavior. == Praxeology and thymology == In his Theory and History, Ludwig von Mises wrote on the relationship between praxeology and thymology: [Thymology] is what a man knows about the way in which people value different conditions, about their wishes and desires and their plans to realize these wishes and desires.