The Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory (DDMLab) was founded in 2002 by Dr. Cleotilde Gonzalez to investigate decision making in complex dynamic environments. The work in the DDMLab involves situations in which individuals make multiple decisions over time. These decisions are interdependent and are bounded by an autonomous and real-time environment.

The DDMLab seeks to build models and methods that would help us explain, predict and draw recommendations for improving decision making in dynamic situations. Examples of contexts studied in the lab include military command and control, resource allocation tasks, and supply-chain management. We use multiple methodologies, including laboratory experiments with complex, dynamic simulations, field observation and data collection, cognitive modeling, and functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery (fMRI).

The laboratory consists of post-doctoral fellows, research-programmers, doctoral students and research assistants. Lab members come from different fields, including Behavioral Decision Research, Psychology and Computer Science. Click on the menu to learn more about our research projects, methods, tools, publications and people, or contact us for more information. Click here to download a copy of our current brochure.

The Dynamic Decision Making Laboratory is part of the Social and Decision Sciences Department,  Carnegie Mellon University. For updates and comments, please email lczlonka@andrew.cmu.edu.