The course introduces an interdisciplinary approach that combines methods of cognitive psychology, psychophysics and neuroscience with experimental economics and game theory to provide an exhaustive description of individual decision-making. The aim of the course is to illustrate how the study of decision-making processes, and more generally the functioning of the mind, can help understand the dynamics of individual economic choices.
The course provides students with knowledge of the main theories of reasoning applied to individual decision-making and a detailed description of cognitive and emotional biases in economic decisions. The course describes different process-tracing methods (eye-tracking and mouse-movements) and provides an exhaustive description of how these techniques can be used in experimental economics.