Judgement and Decision Making 2500-EN-F-13
Wykład (WYK) Semestr letni 2019/20

Indicative (PDF papers will be distributed prior to lectures):

- Compulsory reading:

- Braisby, N., & Gellatly, A. (2005/2012). Cognitive psychology. Oxford University Press

- Eysenck, M.W., & Keane, M.T. (2010). Cognitive psychology: A student's handbook (6th Edition). Psychology Press.

Informative reading:

- Eysenck, M. (2012). Fundamentals of cognition (2nd Edition). Psychology Press.

- Dijksterhuis, A., Bos, M. W., Nordgren, L. F., & Van Baaren, R. B. (2006). On making the right choice: The deliberation-without-attention effect. Science, 311(5763), 1005-1007.

- Fiedler, K., & Juslin, P. (2006). Information sampling and adaptive cognition. Cambridge University Press.

- Greene, J. D., Sommerville, R. B., Nystrom, L. E., Darley, J.M., & Cohen, J. D. (2001). An fMRI investigation of emotional engagement in moral judgement. Science, 293(5537), 2105-2108.

- Hertwig, R., Barron, G., Weber, E. U., & Erev, I. (2004). Decisions from experience and the effect of rare events in risky choice. Psychological Science, 15, 534–539.

- Kahneman, D. (2003). A perspective on judgment and choice: Mapping bounded rationality. American Psychologist, 58, 697–720.

- Kahneman, D., & Tversky, A. (1979). Prospect theory: An analysis of decision under risk. Econometrica, 47, 263–291.

- Kusev, P., van Schaik, P., Ayton, P., Dent, J., & Chater, N. (2009). Exaggerated risk: Prospect theory and probability weighting in risky choice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35, 1487-1505.

- Kusev, P., Ayton, P., van Schaik, P., Tsaneva-Atanasova, K., Stewart, N., & Chater, N. (2011). Judgments relative to patterns: How temporal sequence patterns affect judgments and memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37, 1874-1886.

- Kusev, P., Tsaneva-Atanasova, K., van Schaik, P. & Chater, N. (2012). Modelling judgement of sequentially presented categories using weighting and sampling without replacement. Behavior Research Methods. DOI 10.3758/s13428-012- 0218-9

- Kusev, P., van Schaik., Alzahrani, S., Lonigro, S., & Purser, H. (2016). Judging the morality of utilitarian actions: How poor utilitarian accessibility makes judges irrational. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23(6), 1961-1967.

- Kusev, P., Purser, H., Heilman, R., Cooke, A., van Schaik, P., Baranova, V., Martin, R., & Ayton, P. (2017). Understanding Risky Behavior: The Influence of Cognitive, Emotional and Hormonal Factors on Decision-Making under Risk. Frontiers in Psychology. 8, 102. doi: - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00102

- Kusev, P., van Schaik, P., Martin, R., Hall, L., & Johansson, P. (2019). Preference reversals during risk elicitation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000655

- Levitin, D. J. (2002). Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: Core Readings. MIT Press.

- Manktelow, K. (2012). Thinking and reasoning: An introduction to the psychology of reason, judgment and decision making (2nd Edition). Psychology Press.

- Martin, R., Kusev, I., Cooke, A. J., Baranova, V., van Schaik, P., & Kusev, P. (2017). Commentary: The social dilemma of autonomous vehicles. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 808.

- Matlin. M. (2009). Cognitive Psychology (7th Edition; International Student Version). Wiley.

- Stewart, N., Chater, N., & Brown, G. D. A. (2006). Decision by sampling. Cognitive Psychology, 53, 1–26.

- Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1992). Advances in prospect theory: Cumulative representation of uncertainty. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 5, 297–323.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of decision and cognitive theories in psychology.

2. Identify how experience, expertise, memory, emotions influence categorisation and choice behaviour.

3. Critically evaluate research in cognitive psychology.

4. Identify how recent developments in cognitive psychology find applications in areas such as health, economics, and politics.

Students will read in depth about recent developments in decision-making/cognitive psychology to inform and motivate a 2000-word essay (critical literature review) which is worth 100% of the final mark. Critical thinking skills will be assessed formatively during the lectures where pertinent primary literature is analysed and discussed. Developing a structured and principled critical essay plan will be assessed formatively.

Attendance of lectures is required. No more than one unexcused absence is allowed over the duration of this course and no more than two absences overall irrespective of excuse.

Students must respect the principles of academic integrity. Cheating and plagiarism (including copying work from other students, internet or other sources) are serious violations that are punishable and instructors are required to report all cases to the administration.

Memory, context and categorisation of information;

Utilitarianism;

Normative (Economics) and descriptive (Psychology) theories of behaviour;

Risk behaviour and the construction of preferences;

Behavioural economics;

Multiattribute decisions and retrospective judgements;

Decision heuristics and behavioural forecasting;

Decisions from experience;

Learning and learning strategies

Moral decision-making

Conscious and unconscious processing in decision-making

This course will encourage students to evaluate critically the latest scientific literature on judgement and decision-making, behavioural economics, memory and categorisation. Lectures will introduce theories in key areas of research. We also employ research-led teaching, where during every lecture, a key paper will be assigned for a structured discussion and students will be expected to prepare answers to a set of questions to feed discussion with the lecturer and other students. As the assessment is a 3000-word essay, in class exercises will also be designed to encourage students to produce essay plans.