Interactive Decision Making: Cooperation, Competition, and Negotiation

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This seminar will explore how people think, feel, and act in interactive decision making situations. Topics of discussion will include strategic thinking and choice, social influence, bargaining games, social dilemmas, negotiation, conflict management, and dispute resolution, among other topics. We will discuss intrapersonal, interpersonal, intragroup, and intergroup processes related to interactive decision making, and read research from multiple disciplines, including cognitive and social psychology, behavioral economics, management, and more. This course is intended for PhD students who wish to think together about theoretical ideas, methodology, and empirical findings related to interactive decision making, and develop research projects in this field.