FOR 1410: Contextualised Decision Making

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The general research agenda of the Research Unit is embedded in the area of experimental psychology and social psychology. The participating individual research projects are addressing different, yet connected research questions that all focus on human decision making. Some examples for the investigated questions: Which situational aspects determine whether individuals engage in more intuitive or in more elaborative strategies of decision making? Which factors influence whether individuals decisions are guided by a short-term versus a long-term perspective? When do individuals rely on simple decision rules and heuristics and when do they search for more information? Which relation can be observed between the quality of a decision and the amount of information that is considered - and more specifically, can decisions that are based on a small number of information be better than decisions based on a large amount of information? The general assumption that underlies the investigation of these questions holds that human decision making is usually very well adapted towards the requirements of the respective situation. From such a perspective, different decisions, that result from variations of situational context in which the decision is embedded, do not reflect errors but the adjustment to the situational requirements. It is expected, that the research will contribute basic knowledge on human decision making. Moreover, the participating projects will investigate, which implications can be derived from the context-dependent decision making with respect to different fields of application.