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SUMMARY:How we know what not to think (3pm start) - Dr Fiery Cushman (Harv
 ard University)
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CONTACT:David Young
DESCRIPTION:In the real world\, there is far too much to think about.  Thi
 s is remarkably understudied in laboratory contexts\, however\, where the 
 study of decision-making is typically limited to small “choice sets” d
 efined by an experimenter.    In these contrived cases an individual may d
 evote considerable attention to each item in the choice set.  But ordinari
 ly we are often not presented with defined choice sets\; rather\, we must 
 construct a viable set of alternatives to consider.  I will present severa
 l recent and ongoing research projects that each aim to understand how hum
 ans spontaneously decide what actions to consider—in other words\, how w
 e construct choice sets.  The main argument is that the kind of value repr
 esentations relevant to choice set construction differ systematically from
  those used for choice itself.  Additionally\, I will present some evidenc
 e that moral norms play a surprisingly and uniquely large role in constrai
 ning choice sets and\, more broadly\, in modal cognition (i.e.\, reasoning
  about what is possible\, likely\, or desirable). This suggests a new aven
 ue for understanding how morality influences our thought and behavior.\n\n
 Dr Cushman is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at H
 arvard University.\n\nZoom link: https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/study/grads
 /grads/spss-joining-details. 
LOCATION:via zoom 
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