Cognitive Social Science
COGS 301/401. Spring 2011.
MW 12:30-1:45pm. Crawford 618.
Description:
This course introduces the student to the outlines and substance of the recent sharp spike in research into the cognitive science of economics, law, political science, business, and related fields, with emphasis on decision-making and judgments. Topics include framing, interdependent decision-making, bounded rationality, mechanisms of choice such as heuristics and rational calculation, and so on.
The Cognitive Science Network offers an Abstracting eJournal for Cognitive Social Science which will be distributed free to the class. The Cognitive Science Society is offering a special workshop on “
Grounding the Social Sciences in Cognitive Science” at its annual meeting, in Portland, Oregon, 17 August 2010. MIT has commissioned a reference work,
Grounding Social Science in Cognition.
The course will be based on original articles, which will be made available through a private electronic archive.
Students who wish to begin reading in advance of the course should see the Blackboard site for the course.