Date: 16^th July, 2019

Time: 14:30-16:00 p.m.

Venue: Room 1102, The Administration Building, Zhejiang University

【Speaker Introduction】：Dr. Andreas Glöckner is a Chair Professor at the University of Cologne, Germany. He is the president of the European Association for Decision Making, and the Editor-in-Chief of Judgment and Decision Making. Before he moved to the University of Cologne, he worked at the University of Hagen, University of Gottingen, and the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. His research was published in top academic journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Psychological Review, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.

【Lecture Abstract】：Cognitive models of decision-making typically aim at explaining and predicting choice outcomes as well as the underlying processes. Various classes of process models have been suggested. In early research in the field of judgment and decision-making, there has been a strong focus on (e.g., fast-and-frugal) heuristics, which mainly disappeared from the recent discourse. Evidence accumulation and attention drift diffusion models have become increasingly popular. Also interactive activation models that implement processes of coherence-based decision-making have attracted increasing attention. I present results from various studies that use choices, response times, confidence, arousal, visual attention and (active) information search to test core assumptions of these models. The results show that processes of sense making and construction of coherent interpretations are central to decision making. I conclude that current models of decision making have to take into account interactive activation mechanisms that underlie coherence construction processes.