Cognition and Decision

Recommended Prerequisites

The general admission criteria for  the PhD program apply

Teaching Methods

Lecture (seminars, conferences, lectures).

Learning Outcomes

The curricular unit aims at:

(1) Enabling students to identify fundamental research trends in the cognitive psychology of judgment and decision making, not forgetting their inner relation with perceptual, affective, mnesic and inferential processes.

(2) Introducing to the many applied prospects of the psychology of judgment/decision (behavioural finance, econometrics, medical and legal decision making, etc.).

(3) Providing knowledge on the core operational paradigms employed..

(4) Fostering the analytical and conceptual skills required for a sound evaluation of the knowledge basis available in the field and the ability to place and empirically solving research problems.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Psychological Theories of Decision Making

Topics on Mental Accounting

Judgment/Decision Heuristics

Intuitive Statistics

Intertemporal Decision Making

Topics in Game Theory

Decision and Affect

Neurophysiological Aspects of Decision Making.

Head Lecturer(s)

Armando Luís Diniz Mónica de Oliveira

Assessment Methods

Evaluation
Type B examination (review/empirical work): 50.0%
Type A examination (written exam) : 50.0%

Bibliography

Baron, J. (1990). Thinking and Deciding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Connolly, T. , Arkes, H. R., Hammond, K. R. (Eds.) (2000). Judgment and Decision Making: an Interdisciplinary Reader. Cambrigde : Cambridge University Press

Goldstein, W. M. & Hogarth, R. M. (Eds) (1997). Research on Judgment and Decision Making: Currents, Connections, and Controversies. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

Kahneman, D., Slovic, P. & A. Tversky (Eds.) (1982). Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kahneman, D. & Tversky, A. (Eds) (2002) Choices, Values, and Frames. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Koehler, D. J. & Harvey ,N. (Eds) (2004). Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making. Oxford, UK: Blackwell

Schneider, S. L., & Shanteau, J. (Eds.) (2003). Emerging Perspectives on Judgment and Decision Research. New York : Cambridge University Press.