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Content: The module comprises three main sections. First, there is a lecture covering three main theoretical and methodological approaches to studying applied decision making. Next there are a number of lectures concerned with how applied decision making in most if not all domains can be improved听(e.g., expertise; methods of improving decision making, advice giving and taking). Finally, there are lectures on specific applied domains (e.g., medical decision-making, legal decision-making, policy making, financial decision making, consumer decision making). Students should come to appreciate both processes that are common to decision making in different domains of application and those that are specific to each domain. They should be aware of recent developments in general theories of decision-making and of the manner in which these theories have been applied in different specific contexts.
Teaching delivery: This module is taught in 15 hours of in-person lectures spread over 10 teaching weeks (usually in the format of 5 2-hour sessions in one half of term and 5 1-hour lectures in the other half of term).
Indicative Topics: Indicative lecture topics 鈥� based on module content in 2023/24, subject to possible changes: Intro: Approaches to Judgment & Decision Making, Feedback, Incentives & Decision aids, Advice taking, Metacognition, Impaired Decision Making (DM), Forecasting, Ethical DM, Expertise, Gambling, Consumer DM, Policy DM, Financial DM, Medical DM and Juror DM.
Module Aims: By the end of this module, students should be able to:
- recognise key decision making processes relevant to a particular applied domain;
- have a good understanding of key insights in the domains focussed on in the module, and recognise where these are limited;
- be able to recognise areas of research gaps in these domains.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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