Judgment and Decision Making
Human judgment and decision-making is highly context specific. This dependence on context rarely produces stable coherent preferences as the rational agent theory has it. In my lab, we study the conditions under which people’s decisions deviate from normative or ‘rational’ expectations. When do we suffer from illusions of knowledge - looking for additional information, which hurts the accuracy of our predictions while at the same time increases our confidence? We are also interested in the policy implications of descriptive models of human judgment and decision-making.
Contact:
Alex Todorov