PNP Workshop on Decision-Making

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6

9:45am-11:45am  

Todd Braver (WUSTL) Cognitive Control and Reward-Based Decision-Making

Andrew Westbrook (WUSTL)  Opportunity Costs and Cognitive Effort in Decision-Making

Alumni House - Dining room

11:45am-1pm - LUNCH  

1pm-3pm 
Pascal Boyer (WUSTL) Mental time-travel and discounting in an evolutionary pico-economic perspective

Richard Ridderinkhof (Amsterdam) Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Perception-Action Coordination and Self-regulation: A Theoretical Synthesis 

Alumni House - Dining room

3-4pm  

WINE & CHEESE, Psychology 215A

4pm  

Chandra Sripada (Michigan)  The Architecture of Self-Control

Wilson Hall 214

THURSDAY, APRIL 7 
9:45am-11:45am
Joel Anderson (Utrecht)  Scaffolded Decision-Making and Scaffolded Self-Control:  Analogies and Disanalogies in Approaches to Externalization

Julia Haas (WUSTL) The divided mind precludes synchronic self-control

Alumni House - Dining room
 

11:45am-1pm - LUNCH 

1pm-3pm 
Nora Heinzelmann (Cambridge) Delay discounting and weakness of will

Adina Roskies (Dartmouth) Decision-making and self-governance

Alumni House - Dining room
 

3-4pm  
Leonard Green and Joel Myerson (WUSTL)  Impulsivity, Impatience, and Risk Taking: How Many Impulsivities? A Discounting Perspective

Alumni House - Dining room
 

4pm 
John Doris (WUSTL)  Skepticism about Decisions

Wilson Hall 214