15.301 | Fall 2004 | Undergraduate, Graduate

Managerial Psychology Laboratory

Course Description

We function in our personal and professional lives based on knowledge and intuitions. Our intuition that we know a lot is very powerful. But sometimes intuitions are accurate and sometimes they are not; without research, it is hard to tell.

This course combines a few different goals: develop a critical eye for making …

We function in our personal and professional lives based on knowledge and intuitions. Our intuition that we know a lot is very powerful. But sometimes intuitions are accurate and sometimes they are not; without research, it is hard to tell.

This course combines a few different goals: develop a critical eye for making inferences from data; be able to carry out simple data analysis; learn about managerial psychology; develop interesting new questions about managerial psychology and test these questions.

Learning Resource Types
Exams
Lecture Notes
Written Assignments
Flow chart on money mapping and value of experience.
An experiment testing money mapping and value of experience. (Image courtesy of Prof. Dan Ariely.)