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PPE 3001-401 |
Strategic Reasoning |
David Dillenberger |
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TR 1:45 PM-3:14 PM |
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This course is about strategically interdependent decisions. In such situations, the outcome of your actions depends also on the actions of others. When making your choice, you have to think what the others will choose, who in turn are thinking what you will be choosing, and so on. Game Theory offers several concepts and insights for understanding such situations, and for making better strategic choices. This course will introduce and develop some basic ideas from game theory, using illustrations, applications, and cases drawn from business, economics, politics, sports, and even fiction and movies. Some interactive games will be played in class. There will be little formal theory, and the only pre-requisites are some high-school algebra and having taken Econ 1. However, general numeracy (facility interpreting and doing numerical graphs, tables, and arithmetic calculations) is very important. This course will also be accepted by the Economics department as an Econ course, to be counted toward the minor in Economics (or as an Econ elective). |
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ECON0120401 |
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PPE 3003-401 |
Behavioral Economics and Psychology |
Pei-Hsun Hsieh |
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TR 3:30 PM-4:59 PM |
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Our understanding of markets, governments, and societies rests on our understanding of choice behavior, and the psychological forces that govern it. This course will introduce you to the study of choice, and will examine in detail what we know about how people make choices, and how we can influence these choices. It will utilize insights from psychology and economics, and will apply these insights to domains including risky decision making, intertemporal decision making, and social decision making. |
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PSYC2750401 |
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PPE 4600-301 |
Advanced Seminar in Political Science: Campaigns, Elections, and Participation |
Amy Funck |
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W 10:15 AM-1:14 PM |
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An advanced seminar in PPE offered by faculty in Political Science. As an advanced interdisciplinary seminar, this course is open to juniors and seniors with a declared PPE major (open to others by departmental permission). For a detailed course description visit: https://ppe.sas.upenn.edu/study/curriculum/advanced-interdisciplinary-courses |
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PPE 4802-401 |
Advanced Seminar in Psychology: Obedience |
Edward Royzman |
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R 1:45 PM-4:44 PM |
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Though almost half a century old, Milgram’s 1961-1962 studies of “destructive obedience” continue to puzzle, fascinate, and alarm. The main reason for their continued grip on the field’s attention (other than the boldness of the idea and elegance of execution) may be simply that they leave us with a portrait of human character that is radically different from the one that we personally wish to endorse or that the wider culture teaches us to accept. In this seminar, we will take an in-depth look at these famous studies (along with the more recent replications) and explore their various psychological, political and philosophical ramifications. |
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PSYC3780401 |
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PPE 4803-401 |
Advanced Seminar in Psychology: Modeling Choice Behavior |
Sudeep Bhatia |
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R 12:00 PM-2:59 PM |
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How do people decide and how can we study decision processes using formal mathematical and computational models? This course will address this question. It will examine popular quantitative modeling techniques in psychology, economics, cognitive science, and neuroscience, and will apply these techniques to study choice behavior. Students will learn how to test the predictions of choice models, fit the models on behavioral data, and quantitatively examine the goodness-of-fit. They will also get practice formulating their own models for describing human behavior. This class will have a major programming component, however no prior programming experience is required. |
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PSYC3803401 |
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PPE 4900-301 |
Advanced Seminar in PPE: Cooperative Altruism (SNF Paideia Course) |
Jaron Cordero |
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MW 1:45 PM-3:14 PM |
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An advanced seminar in PPE offered by Paideia-affiliated faculty. As an advanced interdisciplinary seminar, this course is open to juniors and seniors with a declared PPE major (open to others by departmental permission). For a detailed course description visit: https://ppe.sas.upenn.edu/study/curriculum/advanced-interdisciplinary-courses |
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PPE 4900-302 |
Advanced Seminar in PPE: Racial and Ethnic Politics (SNF Paideia Course) |
Jair Alexander Moreira |
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MW 3:30 PM-4:59 PM |
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An advanced seminar in PPE offered by Paideia-affiliated faculty. As an advanced interdisciplinary seminar, this course is open to juniors and seniors with a declared PPE major (open to others by departmental permission). For a detailed course description visit: https://ppe.sas.upenn.edu/study/curriculum/advanced-interdisciplinary-courses |
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