SemesterSpring Semester, 2025
DepartmentJunior Class of Department of Psychology
Course NameJudgment and Decision Making
InstructorNG TING-TAT
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
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週次



Week



課程主題



Topic



課程內容與指定閱讀



Content and Reading Assignment



教學活動與作業



Teaching Activities and Homework



學習投入時間Student workload expectation



課堂講授In-class Hours



課程前後



Outside- of-class



Hours



1



(2/19)



Introduction



Bazerman & Moore (2012) Ch. 1



Lecture and videos



3



3



2



(2/26)



Intuitive & deliberative thinking



Kahneman (2011)

Ch. 1 – 3



 



Lecture, class discussion, and videos



3



5



3



(3/5)



Overconfidence



Common heuristics and biases



Bazerman & Moore (2012) Ch. 2, 3



Lecture, class discussion, and videos



3



5



4



(3/12)



Framing



Bazerman & Moore (2012) Ch. 5



 



Lecture, class discussion, and videos



3



5



5



(3/19)



Bounded awareness



Escalation of commitment



Bazerman & Moore (2012) Ch. 4, 7



Lecture, class discussion, and videos



3



5



6



(3/26)



Risk and uncertainty



Figner & Weber (2011).



Slovic & Peters (2006)



Lecture, class discussion, and videos



3



5



7



(4/2)



Intercollegiate activities (No class)



Mid-term exam preparation



/



/



6



8



(4/9)



Mid-term Exam



Contents of Week 1 – 6



Mid-term exam



3



8



9



(4/16)



Moral judgment and decisions



Bazerman & Moore (2012) Ch. 8



Graham et al. (2011)



Lecture, class discussion, and videos



3



5



10



(4/23)



Social dilemmas I



Baron (2007) Ch. 18



Van Lange et al. (2013)



 



Lecture, class discussion, and videos



3



5



11



(4/30)



Social dilemmas II



Rand et al. (2012)



Thielmann et al. (2020)



 



Lecture, class discussion, and videos



3



5



12



(5/7)



Delayed discounting



Negotiation



Baron (2007) Ch. 19



Green & Myerson (2004)



Bazerman & Moore (2012) Ch. 10



Lecture, class discussion, and videos



3



5



13



(5/14)



Common investment mistakes



Improving decision making



Bazerman & Moore (2012) Ch. 9, 12



 



Lecture, class discussion, and videos



3



5



14



(5/21)



University anniversary (No class)



Final exam preparation



/



/



6



15



(5/28)



Proposal Outline Presentation



Presentation



Proposal outline presentation and peer feedback & suggestions



3



6



16



(6/4)



Final Exam



Contents of Week 9 – 13



Final exam



3



8



17



(6/11)



Final report preparation



N/A



Final report



/



5



18



(6/18)



Final report preparation



N/A



Final report



/



5



Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant

黃琪荏 (Jen)



Email: 112752005@g.nccu.edu.tw


Requirement/Grading

1. Mid-term exam: 25%



Multiple-choice questions and short questions



2. Final exam: 30%



 Multiple-choice questions and short questions



3. Group project: 30%



 Peer feedback and suggestions (5%) & final report (25%)



4. Class participation: 15%



     Attendance, active in-class discussion, mini in-class presentation


Textbook & Reference

Required Reading



Bazerman, M. H., & Moore, D. A. (2012). Judgment in managerial decision making (8th ed.). John Wiley & Sons Inc.



 



Supplementary Readings



Baron, J. (2007). Thinking and deciding (4th ed.). Cambridge University Press.



Figner, B., & Weber, E. U. (2011). Who takes risks when and why? Determinants of risk taking. Current Directions in Psychological Science20(4), 211-216.



Graham, J., Nosek, B. A., Haidt, J., Iyer, R., Koleva, S., & Ditto, P. H. (2011). Mapping the moral domain. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology101(2), 366-385.



Green, L., & Myerson, J. (2004). A discounting framework for choice with delayed and probabilistic rewards. Psychological Bulletin130(5), 769-792.



Holt, C. A., & Laury, S. K. (2002). Risk aversion and incentive effects. American Economic Review92(5), 1644-1655.



Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, fast and slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.



Thielmann, I., Spadaro, G., & Balliet, D. (2020). Personality and prosocial behavior: A theoretical framework and meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin146(1), 30-90.



Rand, D. G., Greene, J. D., & Nowak, M. A. (2012). Spontaneous giving and calculated greed. Nature489(7416), 427-430.



Slovic, P., & Peters, E. (2006). Risk perception and affect. Current Directions in Psychological Science15(6), 322-325.



Van Lange, P. A., Joireman, J., Parks, C. D., & Van Dijk, E. (2013). The psychology of social dilemmas: A review. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes120(2), 125-141.



 



*In-class readings will be uploaded to Moodle.


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