Cognition
and Decision Lab
About
The Cognition and Decision Lab is a joint venture among principal investigators Michael Woodford, Mark Dean and Hassan Afrouzi, faculty members of the Economics Department at Columbia University. The lab's aim is to use tools and techniques from Economics, Neuroscience, and Psychology to better understand the cognitive processes underlying economic decision making. Current projects include studying the way in which limited attention is allocated during choice and understanding the role of incomplete preferences in economic decision making. For more information, please contact one of the principal investigators.
Announcements
Summer 2023
This summer, Dilip and Mark will present their paper "A Better Test of Choice Overload" everywhere on the planet or so, including the Bounded Rationality in Choice Conference (BRIC; June 3-4, Northwestern), the North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society (NASM; June 22-25, Los Angeles), and the meeting of the European Economic Association (EEA-ESEM; Aug 28-Sept 1, Barcelona).
Latest News
October 2024
Lab alumnus Arthur Prat-Carrabin and Mike’s paper, “Endogenous Precision of the Number Sense,” has been accepted as a reviewed pre-print by eLife.
October 2024
Lab alumni Mel Win Khaw and Ziang Li have a new draft of their paper, “Cognitive Imprecision and Stake-Dependent Risk Attitudes,” available as an NBER Working Paper.
October 2024
Lab alumna Yeji Sung’s paper with Mike and Rava Azeredo da Silveira, “Optimally Imprecise Memory and Biased Forecasts,” has been published in American Economic Review.
October 2024
Lab alumnus Silvio Ravaioli is an author of a meta-study with Hayley Jach and others, “Individual Differences in Information Demand Have a Low-Dimensional Structure Predicted by Some Curiosity Personality Traits,” that has been accepted by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper discusses two of the studies of attention and information choice that Silvio worked on while here at the Lab.
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