The Fund

The LJDME fund was set up in 2011 to fund research in the School of Psychology at the University of Leicester.

The fund supports staff research projects in the field of judgment and decision making, and studentships and internships to encourage and support junior researchers to join this exciting field of research.

Our Research

Some of our research themes already funded include: causal and counterfactual thinking in children and adults; confidence; cooperation; communication influencing decisions; cooperation and trust between humans and AI; game theory and experimental games; mental accounting; moral judgment; and overconfidence.

Our research goal is to understand more about the cognitive mechanisms and social processes involved in human decision making. As we understand more about how people take decisions, we can help them to take better decisions in many different aspects of their lives.

Outside of our experimental research we also investigate applied issues like children's perceptions of risk and danger, working with Warning Zone (a Leicester-based educational charity), and also the understanding of public health risks associated with antibiotic resistance.

How You Can Help

Your support will enable us to carry out more novel and important research to understand human judgment and decision making: how people think and decide. Your support will also benefit our talented students through PhD studentships and paid work internships to do research in judgment and decision making.

Find out more:

https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/npb/research/judgement/leicester-judgment-and-decision-making-endowment-fund