Applied Psychology

Psychology of Decision-Making

Release Date: 2017-09-22

1. Basic Course Information

Course Code: 201152
Course Name: Psychology of Decision-Making
Course Type: Major Elective
Periods: 32 hours
Credits: 2
Target students: Undergraduates of Psychology
Assessment: Evaluation

2. Basic Course Introduction

Psychology of Decision-making is one of the major electives for the applied psychology students, and it introduces the human judgment and decision-making, especially the risk decision-making in economics. The course will explain the premises, basic hypotheses, theories and experimental facts of three norms (standardization, illustration and evolution), and focus on illustrative policy-making, research of decision-making in evolutionary norm, and the latest achievements of behaviour economics and neuro-economics in the field of risk decision-making.