One of the ultimate goals of behavioral decision science is improving decision making, especially in difficult and high-stakes real-life situations. To fulfill this aim, researchers must understand what has gone well and what has yet to be improved in the decision process. Then, researchers can design, evaluate, and implement interventions to help people in real life.
Over the years, I have investigated numerous interesting topics around improving decision making, including developing and evaluating judgment strategies for improving judgment accuracy, understanding people’s attitudes towards nudges and enhancing nudges’ acceptability, debiasing the sunk-cost fallacy, understanding and reducing indecisiveness, and exploring low and high performers’ tendency to seek advice.