RISK AND DECISION MODELS

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

000277L

Academic Year of enrolment:

2017

Year of supply:

2017/2018

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in SOCIAL RESEARCH, SECURITY POLICY AND CRIMINAL STUDIES

Disciplinary Sector:

LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

OLIVERIO Albertina

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

102

Objectives

This course aims to introduce students to individual and collective decision theory in social sciences. Contributions from sociology, economics, psychology, philosophy, epistemology, biology, will be analysed. A particular attention will be dedicated to choices under risk. 

Recommended Bibliography

(4 CFU) 
J. G. March, Primer on Decision Making: How Decisions Happen, Free Press (January 23, 2009). 
 
(2 CFU) 
 
D. Evans, Risk Intelligence: How to Live with Uncertainty, Free Press (April 17, 2012). 
CLARKE R.V., CORNISH D.B., “Modeling Offenders' Decisions: A Framework for Research and Policy”, in Crime and Justice Vol. 6 (1985), pp. 147-185.
GREENE J.D. “The Cognitive Neurosciences of Moral Judgment and Decision-Making”, 2014 (in The Cognitive Neurosciences V,  ed. M.S. Gazzaniga, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA), online.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Written.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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