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Judgment and Decision making

● Judgement- Assessment or belief given about a certain situation


○ Ex. estimating likelihood of rain
● Decision- What to do or not to do given a certain situation
○ Beliefs -> Decisions -> Goals
● Rational Choice Theory- based on gambling
○ We are rational decision makers that evaluate decisions based on probability and
estimations
○ Consistent in the decisions we make
○ Actually not always rational we are even in simplistic situations
● Heuristics and Biases in Judgment and Decision making -( Tversky and Kahneman)
○ People are affected by many factors in decision making
■ Ex. overconfidence,
○ We have fundamental/ automatic cognitive abilities
■ Judging similarities between different objects/events
■ Recognizing previously experienced situations/ individuals
■ Ability to retrieve info. based on experiences
○ We have a cognitive toolbox of mental heuristics stored in LTM
■ Heuristics- mental shortcuts in the would that are essential in making
decisions and living
● May lead to faulty beliefs, biases
● By looking at errors/ biases, we can learn about people are under
uncertainty
● Anchoring and insufficient adjustment- estimates starting from initial value ( anchor)
given
○ Inability to sufficiently adjust estimation
○ Making decisions based on the first piece of info. ( anchor)
● Availability Heuristic- making judgments based on easily retrieved info.
● The Linda problem- Judging the conjunction of 2 events to be more probable than one
○ Thinking about how similar they are to feminist rather than her being a bank
teller
● Representative Heuristic- PLacing a person in an object/category, if the person fits in
prototype of category
● Hindsight Bias - Knowing the outcome makes it very difficult to imagine what your
judgment would have been in you didn't know the outcome
○ I knew it all along effect
○ Conway (1990) - reporting how prepared theft were prior to exam
■ Worse than expected = prepared less to prepare
■ Better then expected= prepared more
● Disease Problem ( Tversky and Kahneman, 1981)
○ Scenario - USA preparing for outbreak of disease expected to kill 600
○ Framing effect- how you word things to make someone more/ less likely to
choose a certain answer
■ Gain frame - showing what you will gain through choosing choice
■ Loss frame- what you will loss through making choice
● People are more likely to choose gain frame because people tend
to not want to risk or lose anything
● Vaccine effectiveness (Bigman, Capella and Hornik, 2010)
○ 70% effective vs 30% ineffective
○ People mostly focus on the positive framing
○ Phrasing maters

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