88-703 Judgment and Decision Making

12 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course is meant for PhD students. It will be taught seminar-style, with background on the judgment and decision making literature and interactive presentations of recent and original research. The goals of the course are: to expose you to both historical and current research in human judgment and decision making, to give you a deeper understanding of the psychological underpinnings of judgment, to train you to think critically and empirically, to develop your ability to design empirical tests of hypotheses about the nature of judgment, and to provide you with a forum for presenting and defending your positions, for critically examining and discussing the positions of others, and for practicing public speaking and presentation.

Prerequisites: none listed

Offered: Fall 2026, Fall 2025

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