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88-302 Behavioral Decision Making


Units:9.0
Department:Social & Decision Sci.
Prerequisites:36-201 or 36-207 or 36-211 or 36-217 or 36-220 or 36-225 or 36-247 or 70-207
Related URLs:http://hss.cmu.edu/HTML/departments/sds/

Behavioral decision making is the study of how people make decisions, in terms that can eventually help them to make better decisions. It draws together research from psychology, economics, political science, and management, among other fields. It has applications that range from managing potentially hazardous technologies, to involving patients more fully in the choice of medical procedures, to the design of computer-interactive systems. The course covers behavioral theories of probabilistic inference, intuitive prediction, preference, and decision making. Topics include heuristics and biases in inference and prediction, risk perceptions and attitudes, strategies for combining information from different sources and dealing with conflicting objectives, and the roles of group and emotional processes in decision making. The course emphasizes the mutually reinforcing relationship between theory and application.

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