Judgment, Argumentation and DEcision Making

The JADE Lab focuses on the classic research area of judgment and decision making, studying how boundedly rational agents (natural or artificial) assess available options (judgment) and select which ones to pursue (decision-making). These phenomena, however, need to be investigated both at the individual and at the collective level: the former requires dealing with reasoning, the latter prompts to analyze the role of social interaction in shaping beliefs and preferences (argumentation and judgment aggregation). All these aspects of JADE research assume an understanding of cognition as inherently goal-directed, whereas our studies integrate the methods of various disciplines interested in reasoning and decision: psychology, philosophy, economics, ethology, computer science, and neuropsychology.