PSX_512 Human Nature: Key Studies in Psychology

LECTURE 1: Decision-Making & Irrationality

Please make sure you watch the videos before taking the quiz.

Link to Quiz 1 available at the bottom of this module.

To download the PowerPoint presentation for this week, scroll down to the end of this module.

In future lectures on human irrationality and self-regulation, we will turn our attention to:

- more examples on how context affects our decisions

- how context affects our behaviour DESPITE our decisions

- why people behave "irrationally" - how human mind works

- why it is difficult for us to overcome "irrational" tendencies

 

Daniel Kahneman on how we experience memories as good or bad

Dan Ariely on decision making

 

 

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