Note: I am currently entering the first year of my MRes, and so do not yet have a research project decided, see summary

人们如何在一个不确定和复杂的世界中做出选择？我的目标是研究这个广泛的问题，并找到改善个人、团体和组织决策的方法。我发现，我们应该通过考虑情绪、认知限制和隐含偏见来扩充经典模型，以准确描述行为，这是直觉上的。例如，在《思考，快与慢》(Kahneman，2011)中，1可用性启发式，即人们用对事件概率的评估来代替记忆的难易程度，引起了我的共鸣。像这样的捷径可以影响广泛的决策，而良好的行为模式可以通过考虑这些因素来补充经典的微观经济理论。我愿意加深对这些模式的理解，为它们的发展做出贡献。我还想开发将行为洞察力应用于公共政策。

How do people make choices in an uncertain and complex world? My objective is to study this broad question and discover ways to improve decision-making by individuals, groups and organisations. I find it intuitive that we should augment classical models by considering emotions, cognitive limitations and implicit biases to describe behaviour accurately. For example, in 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' (Kahneman, 2011),1 the availability heuristic, which states that people substitute the ease of remembering an event with an assessment of the event's probability, resonates with me. Shortcuts such as this can influence a wide range of decisions, and good models of behaviour could complement classical microeconomic theory by taking account of these. I would like to deepen my understanding of such models and contribute to their development. I would also like to develop applications of behavioural insights to public policy.