Behavioural Decision-making

This course introduces graduate students to theories, ideas, and findings in behavioural decision-making research. Although normative theories of judgment and decision-making will be discussed, the main focus of this course will be descriptive theories. The readings are selected to introduce students to a variety of issues dealing with judgment and decision-making in psychology and economics as well as other business disciplines such as marketing, finance, organizational behaviour and operations management. Possible topics will include decision-making under risk and ambiguity, emotions and decision-making, intuition vs. deliberation, and intertemporal choice.Priority may be given to Management Sciences students.