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Psychology for Policy Analysis

Psychology for Policy Analysis. Wrap Up 12.3 .12. Psychological assumptions… . Permeate the social sciences Rational view Behavioral view Biased judgment Malleable preferences Influenced by social context! Psychology as a tool for policy!. Course Objectives.

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Psychology for Policy Analysis

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  1. Psychology for Policy Analysis Wrap Up 12.3.12

  2. Psychological assumptions… • Permeate the social sciences • Rational view • Behavioral view • Biased judgment • Malleable preferences • Influenced by social context! • Psychology as a tool for policy!

  3. Course Objectives • Be a better consumer of psychological research • Understanding the scientific method in social science • Becoming familiar with experimental design • Possess an additional set of tools for policy analysis, design and implementation

  4. Behavioral economics • Risk perception • Attitudes and behavior change • Negotiation • Intergroup relations

  5. Behavioral economics • Heuristics and biases approach • System 1 vs System 2 • Bounded awareness • Prospect theory – loss aversion • Clinical vs. actuarial judgment

  6. Risk perception • Emotion and perception of risk • Messaging and intuition about risk • Also tied to emotion • Difficulty in using objective information

  7. Attitudes and behavior change • Social norms (injunctive vs. descriptive) • Tools of persuasion • Central vs. Peripheral route to persuasion

  8. Negotiation • Cognitive barriers to rationality • Many previous heuristics and biases in play • Anchoring • Self-serving biases • Status quo bias • Framing

  9. Intergroup relations • Individuals form groups readily (Tajfel) • Functions of forming groups • Stigma and its links to prejudice and discrimination • Cognitive, behavioral and affective response patterns • Automaticity of many of these effects

  10. What can we do about it? • Use decision-analysis tools • Acquire expertise • Debias judgment • Reason analogically • Take an outside view • Understand bias in others

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