abiba Saïbou

"For my thesis about Process tracing of decisions in Ultimatum Game, Prof. Dr. Gigerenzer challenged me to find a solution to predict decisions for “different types of players”; those ones who would share equally between themselves and others through free will, and those who had been conditioned to do so, maybe against there initial disposition. Metaphorically, this question is relevant for all kind of negotiations. When is it possible to trust? Is it possible to anticipate the outcome of the negotiations by analyzing the other party’s thoughts?

Thus we need to access thinking through verbal data.

We succeeded to solve the task. The heuristics and algorithms modelled on the basis of manifest verbal data clearly predicted the players decisions.

In conscious decision processes, we regularly observe gaps between intrinsic desires and manifest behavior, which lead to undesired outcomes.

This indicates that highly effective variables constantly contaminate our processes of thinking and feeling. It seems to be standard that people decide in contradiction to their true desires.”

For another 19 years of practice in depth psychology, psychodynamics and psychoanalysis, I had the chance and pleasure to successively build a cartography of unconscious patterns which underlie human decision making. These patterns of “invisible” variables are always individual and unique, but control our behavior and therefore the experiences we make.

From here, it became possible to define sets of variables, which can be labelled to concrete names.

Including these psychoanalytical variables of decision-relevant unconscious psychodynamics in calculations, now represents the next stage of my further explorations.

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Psychologist - Diploma at Freie Universität Berlin

Psychoanalyst - fully lisenced in Berlin, Germany