Psychology graduate student Stella Hao will give a talk titled "What shared decision strategies are used in economic and moral decisions?"

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ABSTRACT
This work aims to understand the strategies people use in making moral decisions and how such strategies are compatible with the characteristics of the environment and the cognitive limitation of the mind. To do this, we investigate what general decision strategies in moral decisions are, and ask whether they are adapted to the environment in the same way that non-moral decisions are. In this talk, I will first introduce a process-tracing method — the MouseLab paradigm (E. Johnson et al., 1989) — that helps identify strategies in decision making. Then, I will propose a series of studies investigating strategies in moral decisions in a given bounded environment. The environmental bounds that we explore are time constraints, numbers of choice alternatives, and numbers of attributes. We will then compare the strategies used in our moral decision tasks with those identified in non-moral decisions in the literature, as well as those identified in our non-moral decision tasks.