The end of the semester

http://sites.google.com/site/inequalityaversioninanimals/

This is the link to our final coursework.

As the is the end of the semester I was reflecting on the module of Judgment and Decision Making.

I must admit that the structure of the module and assessment surprised me. I was not sure if we will be able to create our blogs, our wiki-pages and work in groups for the whole semester. It was completely new way of studying. The workload was also greater than I thought it would be; apart from blogs that we were expected to update every week, there were 2 group essays, group presentation, journals to reed every week, small presentations. Apart from that our computer knowledge was tested. Before I did not know that creating blog is so easy! Still not hundred percent confident with a wiki page, but able to create one ;)

I have noticed that thanks to the constant contact with people from my group, meetings and reading I have actually learned a lot. Seminar discussions help me to understand some of the more difficult articles. My favorite article is about capuchin monkeys which are inequity averse and most shocking one "Psychological models of professional Decision Making" By Dhami.

I have enjoyed writing this blog and I will still update it, maybe not as often...

ciao

INEQUITY AVERSION IN ANIMALS

Our presentation went very well. Although a little bit stressed, we were all prepared and did our best. This week is the deadline for the last piece of a group work. We need to create a wiki page and write an essay about inequality aversion in animals. We looked at several articles regarding dogs, chimpanzees and other animals. Our findings are quite interesting, however I am not going to write about them now as the wiki page is not finished yet-as soon as we will finish I'll copy link to our page so that who ever is interested, could see it.

The focus of my part of the essay is on chimpanzees. My work will be mostly based on the paper "Chimpanzees Are Rational Maximizers in an Ultimatum Game" by K. Jensen, J. Call and M. Tomasello. The key findings from the experiments that they conduct on chimpanzees as humans' closest relatives are not sensitive to fairness. Also that they are rational maximizers.