I am excited that together with Leendert van Maanen, Mael Lebreton, and Kim Archambeau we will soon start a new research project funded by ABC Project Grants 2018. Many experiments in behavioural sciences involve decisions between multiple options. These experiments require numerous decisions from an individual, which may be generated by more than one decision strategy. The project Investigating the dynamics of decision strategies: A new methodological approach and application to linguistic and economic judgments aims to disentangle these decision strategies, and identify moments in time when individuals switch strategy. The project assumes that even if choices are highly similar across strategies, the underlying neural substrates differs. Under this hypothesis, we will statistically model the dynamics of multiple neural signals over time, to identify changes that may be indicative of a change of strategy. The project is a unique cross-talk between neuropsychological methods, economics, and linguistics, and is expected to give new fundamental insights in the dynamics of decision strategies, specifically in the empirical study of linguistic and economic judgements.
New project: Investigating the dynamics of decision strategies
