FOR 1410: Contextualised Decision Making

研究股的一般研究议程包括实验心理学和社会心理学领域。参与的个人研究项目正在解决不同的、但又相互关联的研究问题，这些问题都集中在人类的决策上。调查问题的一些例子：哪些情境因素决定了个体是采用更直观的决策策略还是更精细的决策策略？哪些因素会影响个人的决定是受短期还是长期观点的引导？人们什么时候依赖简单的决策规则和启发式，什么时候搜索更多的信息？在决策的质量和所考虑的信息量之间可以观察到哪种关系——更具体地说，基于少量信息的决策是否比基于大量信息的决策更好？对这些问题进行调查的基本假设是，人类的决策通常能很好地适应各自情况的要求。从这样的角度来看，不同的决策，由于决策所嵌入的情景背景的变化，反映的不是错误，而是对情景要求的调整。预计该研究将为人类决策提供基础知识。此外，参与的项目将调查，哪些影响可以从与不同应用领域相关的决策中得出。

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.