Topic of thesis: Decision-making process under uncertain conditions, particularly in finance.
Abstract: The aim of my research is to investigate the cognitive processes underlying two broad strategies for making reward-based decisions. One of them, termed model-free, involves repeating actions that have led to reward in the past. The contrasting one, model-based, requires deliberatively thinking through all intermediate actions and outcomes that eventually lead to reward. The strategy for investigating this revolves largely around building a model of decisions driven by memory, and two Internet-based experiments will be run to test presumed underlying processes in two different samples. The first study aims to demonstrate two things: people usually use an hybrid strategy when making two subsequent decisions followed or not by reward, and they consider also the value of every single event in the task when making a choice. With a second experiment, I want to find some evidences of the role of memory in reward-based decisions. This may be a very good start to create other studies which could investigate deeper the interesting relation between decision-making and memory, expecially in the economic field.
Research interests: Decision-making, finance, heuristics and uncertainty in economy.
Graduated from: University of Milano-Bicocca.
Degrees obtained: Social Psychology, Decision-making and Economic Behavior.
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