Intuitive Judgement and Rational Decision Making Fall 2008

Professor

P. Kelleher

Course Number

CS-0154-1 (133903)

Course Description

Throughout our daily lives we make judgments about people and situations, and decisions regarding our actions and future plans. Some of our judgments and decisions are based on largely unconscious intuition, while others occur only after conscious deliberation. Many are made under conditions of uncertainty. In this course we will investigate what experimental psychologists have learned about how people make judgments and decisions. We will examine the roles of perception, attention, memory, and other cognitive and emotional processes in judgment and decision making, with special attention to our vulnerability to errors or biases in everyday social situations. We will also consider theories of judgment and decision making, which propose that we use intuition, reason, or both, depending on the circumstances in which we find ourselves. Students will complete a series of short assignments and a longer, final project. REA, WRI, QUA, PRJ

Progress

Completed