NDU · Theme 01
Human Behaviour & Decision-Making
How ordinary decisions are made under uncertainty, obligation and time pressure — and what changes when a recommendation arrives from a system rather than a person.
Current questions
- What do people treat as evidence when a machine and a person disagree?
- How is a decision distributed across family, colleagues and institutions before it is 'made'?
- When does automation reduce deliberation rather than support it?
Where it is being worked out
Case studies
- Digital trust in healthcare decision-making
Who is held responsible when a recommendation turns out to be wrong.
- Ri Vha Venda — Acting President and Deputy Treasurer
Negotiation, consultation and accountability inside a member organisation.
Reading & direction
Next direction
Comparative work on decision environments across clinical, university and public-service settings.
Reading
- Mary Douglas — Risk and Blame
- Lucy Suchman — Human–Machine Reconfigurations
- Annemarie Mol — The Logic of Care
Ask about this theme
The research guide can take a question about human behaviour & decision-making and point you to the closest published work, or say where there is not yet an answer.