Decision-Making

3 Units

This course is a topical introduction to decision-making, a major area of cognitive social science, with connections to economics, law, political science, business, policy, artificial intelligence, and related fields. Topics include game theory and rational calculation, equilibria, kinds of choice, heuristics, the role of affect in decision, framing, bounded rationality, mechanisms of choice such as heuristics, the role of social cognition in choice, concepts of self and other, and computer modeling of choice, especially AI systems that model decision-making and AI systems that serve as copilots or even agents in decision-making. The course also includes an introduction to the design of empirical behavioral research and a minor introduction to software for statistical work. Offered as COGS 316 and COGS 416 .