How You Decide: The Science of Human Decision Making

A series of podcasts by Professor Ryan Hamilton
Podcast

A series of podcasts by Professor Ryan Hamilton

People have always been fascinated by how the mind works. Thousands of times each day, we are presented with choices that require decisions: from what to wear each day to where to live. Over millennia philosophers, theologians, and mathematicians have all weighed in on how we make decisions, and in recent centuries economists, psychologists, and sociologists have joined this investigation. Some of these past theories are essentially aspirational, describing decision making as it should be, not as it often is. This course provides a different view