Human cognition in sequential decisions : an experimental approach

This paper provides a novel insight into human cognition by running a series of experiments on individual behaviour under ambiguity and risk. I focus on what psychologists call “autonomy” as a motivating example of human cognition in decision making. A hypothesis raised in this paper is that autonomous behaviour is an emergent property of decision making under ambiguity. Results of the experiments presented in this paper reveal that, as the hypothesis asserts, the participants would exhibit autonomy that was the absence of excessive need for reliance on the information.