Life is full of big and little decisions: from career, relationships, healthcare, money, and education down to pizza topping and toothbrush color. What combination of information, expertise, thought, intuition, context, motivation, and habit should, or does, guide decisions? How can decisions be influenced, improved, monitored, measured, or manipulated? In this course, we will survey the scientific study of decisions. Frequent demonstrations and in-class experiments will illustrate course concepts. Insights will be gleaned from general human strengths and weaknesses as well as from individual and clinical differences.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 30

Prerequisites: One of the following - PSYC 101, CLSC 110/PSYC 110, NEUR 100, a score of 5 on the Psychology AP exam, or a score of 5, 6, or 7 on the Higher Level IB exam, or permission of the instructor.

Distribution Requirements: EC - Epistemology and Cognition; SBA - Social and Behavioral Analysis

Typical Periods Offered: Fall

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Fall

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