Class Discussion March 20: Collective Action and Decision-making James Surowiecki's excerpt on the wisdom of crowds presents some really compelling ideas. It would seem that crowds are more likely to ...

How do we move forward? How do I move forward? These questions have been haunting me for the past few months. In my experience, democracy has never seemed more fragile. And in my efforts to further ...

Research into social preferences and decision-making under uncertainty has grown considerably, reflecting the need to understand how individuals and societies assess risk and uncertainty while ...

An enduring societal challenge the world over is a “perspective deficit” in collective decision-making. Whether within a single business, at the local community level, or the international level, some ...

The purpose of this course is to explore collective decision making from an algorithmic point of view. We study settings where groups of agents need to make a joint decision by aggregating preferences ...

Ariel Procaccia is the Alfred and Rebecca Lin Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). His work combines mathematics, computer ...

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Decision-making is part of our daily lives. We spend our time making decisions big and small, whether it's what to eat, how to get to a place or how to plan tasks at work. Nothing could be more normal ...

Rational decision-making is different from reflex. It is a conscious process of choosing options from a range of more or less perceived possibilities. For humans, decision-making is often associated ...