What Were They Thinking? The New (Old) Science of Decisions

Peter Zimmerman, Faculty at Harvard’s Kennedy School

One-class Course, Friday March 19 from 10:30 – 12:00

Every day we make hundreds of decisions, most made without a second thought. While we feel pretty good about explaining our decisions, science delivers a different verdict. Our explanations of our decisions, why we do what we do, are invariably incomplete and sometimes just plain wrong.  Peter will lead a guided tour across the landscape of decisions, drawing insights from science, history and our own experience.