Decision Making

Decision Behavior research at the University of Arizona involves students and faculty from across the campus, with interests ranging from the psychology and philosophy of judgment and choice to theoretical and applied research on individual and group decision making in business, medicine, law, accounting and marketing. Graduate students typically tailor their programs of study to include courses in a number of these disciplines, and dissertation committees commonly include faculty from multiple departments. The Arizona Decision Behavior Program was recently rated second in the nation among public universities, and eighth overall, in an independent evaluation of such programs. Cognitive Science faculty working in one or more aspects of decision behavior include:

• Cohen, Paul R. (PhD Stanford University), Professor, Computer Science (Department Head), chunking, developmental robotics, language learning
• Connolly, Terry (PhD Northwestern University), Professor, Management and Organization, decision behavior
• Dornhaus, Anna (PhD University of Würzburg, Germany), Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, collective decision making in insects
• Fasel, Ian (PhD UCSD), Assistant Professor, Computer Science, machine learning, modeling human development, robotics
• Horgan, Terry (PhD University of Michigan), Professor, Philosophy, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, phil. of language, epistemology, decision theory
• Kugler, Tamar (PhD Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Associate Professor, Management and Organization, strategic decision making, inter-group conflict, group decision making
• Nichols, Shaun (PhD Rutgers), Professor, Philosophy, experimental philosophy, cultural evolution, free will, and cognitive theories of the imagination
• Ordoņez, Lisa (PhD Berkeley), Professor, Management and Organization, Judgment and decision making, management and consumer behavior, judgments of fairness
• Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo (PhD University of Rome), Professor, Linguistics, language and mind, judgment and decision making
• Sun, Heshan (PhD Syracuse University), Assistant Professor, School of Information Resources and Library Science, human-computer interface, new media and and learning, user behavior