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, chunking, developmental robotics, language learning
• Connolly, Terry (PhD Northwestern University), Professor, Management and Policy, decision behavior
• Dornhaus, Anna (PhD University of Würzburg, Germany), Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, collective decision making in insects
• 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), Assistant Professor, Management and Policy, 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 Policy, Judgment and decision making, management and consumer behavior, judgments of fairness
• Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo (PhD University of Rome), Professor, Cognitive Science, language and mind, judgment and decision making
• Sanfey, Alan (PhD University of Colorado), Assistant Professor, Psychology, emotion and cognition in decision-making, neural dynamics of fairness and cooperation, memory influences on judgment
• Scheres, Anouk (PhD Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam), Assistant Professor, Psychology, developmental cognitive neuroscience, with a focus on child and adolescent behavioral problems