Biography

Gaëlle Vallée-Tourangeau is a professor of behavioural science and director of research for Kingston Business School. Her research interests include the study of Bayesian reasoning, insight problem-solving, and the role of interactivity in human cognitive performance. She leads the Decision, Attitudes, Risk and Thinking research group, which conducts behavioural science research to promote effective, ethical and sustainable judgment and decision-making and innovative problem-solving.

Psychology for Business (BH6007)

In this module, students learn to apply knowledge of psychological principles to the world of business and work. We explore how psychology can shed light on real-world business issues such as personality and individual differences, motivation, goal-setting and work performance, time perspective, judgment and decision-making, nudging and behaviour change, the psychology of lying, and the role human emotions in decisions.

The module handbook is available here.