Harvard Decision-Making Workshop
 

Spring Semester Schedule, 2012

Giorgio Coricelli

(USC Economics)

Graduate Students / Postdocs

John Assad

  (Harvard Neuroscience)

Amy Cuddy

(Harvard Business)

Laurie Santos

(Yale Psychology)

Drazen Prelec

(MIT Business)

Todd Rogers

(Harvard Public Policy)

Wed, Feb 1

Noon, WJH 765

Wed, Feb 8

Noon, WJH 474

Wed, Feb 22

* 1:00pm*, WJH 474

Wed, Feb 29

Noon, HKS -Darman Room (Taubman 1st Floor)

Wed, Mar 21

Noon, HKS -Cason Room (Taubman 1st Floor)

Wed, Mar 14

Noon, HKS -Darman Room (Taubman 1st Floor)

Wed, Mar 7

Noon, WJH 474

Data Blitz

Decisions, Categories and Parietal Cortex

Fake it ‘til You Make It: Power Posing Changes Hormones, Risk Tolerance, and Job Interview Success

Context Effects on Risk and Reward Preferences in Non-Human Primates

Finding Truth When Most People Are Wrong

Behavioral Perspective on Why People Vote

Date

Speaker

Topic

Molly Crockett

(U-Zurich Economics)

Wed, Mar 28

Noon, WJH 474

The Anatomy of Reciprocity: Insights From Neuroscience and Behavioral Economics

Dustin Tingley

(Harvard Government)

 

Wed, Apr 4

Noon, WJH 474

Identification of Causal Mechanisms: New Estimation Strategies and Research Designs

Steven Pinker

(Harvard Psychology)

Wed, Apr 11

Noon, *WJH 765*

A History of Violence

Chris Baker

(MIT Brain/Cognitive Sciences)

Wed, Apr 18

Noon, *WJH 765*

Bayesian Theory of Mind: Modeling Human Reasoning About Beliefs, Desires, Goals, & Social Relations [Slides]

Matthew Rushworth

(Oxford Neuroscience)

Wed, Apr 25

Noon,*WJH 765*

Neural Mechanisms of Foraging

Nicholas Aramovich (Harvard Psychology)

Wed, May 2

Noon, WJH 474

Group Decision-Making Heuristics: Identifying the Conditions for Fast, Frugal, and Good Group Decisions

Ryan Enos

(Harvard Government)

Wed, May 9

Noon, WJH 474

Groups in Space: Experimenting on the Contextual Causes of Intergroup Attitudes

Neural Basis of Strategic Choice

Jeremy Wolfe

  (Harvard Medical)

Wed, Feb 15

Noon, WJH 474

How Do You Decide That it is Time to Stop Looking?