Description: 
The course will cover: 1) how people make decisions, 2) how the environment we operate in impacts our judgments and decisions, 3) how risks, values, and emotions impact our decision making, 4) how to think ‘better’ using intuitive and systematic methods, and 5) explaining health practitioner and patient decisions. We will cover cognitive heuristics and their resulting biases, how emotions influence our judgments and decisions, environmental constraints on judgment, strategies for de-biasing, and individual differences in our susceptibility to bias.

Objectives:

• To understand people’s (patient and physician) vulnerability to cognition-based errors.
• To understand the influence of the social, emotional, and informational environment upon health-related decisions.
• To develop approaches to support physician self-monitoring and improvement, and enhanced patient decision making, based on psychological theory.