NRE 5150 - PhD Seminar - Behavioral Decision Making

3 credits.

Graduate standing.

Staff.

This seminar focuses on decision making, judgment, and related topics. The initial topic is competing paradigms for research on decision making and the contributions to knowledge that each has made. Specific issues include (a) the kinds of decisions that each paradigmatic approach is most successful in explaining or predicting, (b) the forces that have impelled a shift of emphasis from one paradigm to another, and (c) the expected future productivity of the different paradigms. The remainder of the course is devoted to specific topics within decision research broadly construed, with their selection and priority guided by the interest of participants.