FOR 1410: Contextualised Decision Making

研究单位的一般研究议程是嵌入在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但相互关联的研究问题，这些问题都集中在人类决策上。调查问题的一些例子：哪些情境方面决定了个体是否从事更直观或更详细的决策策略？哪些因素会影响个人决策是受短期还是长期观点的指导？什么时候人们依赖简单的决策规则和推理，什么时候他们会搜索更多的信息？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？对这些问题的调查所依据的一般假设认为，人类的决策通常非常适合于相应情况的要求。从这个角度来看，不同的决策，从不同的情境背景下，决策嵌入的结果，并不反映错误，但调整的情况下的要求。预计这项研究将为人类决策提供基础知识。此外，参与的项目将调查，哪些影响可以从不同应用领域的上下文相关的决策中得出。

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.