A visiting decision-making expert from the United Kingdom will present a seminar for psychology academics and students at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Bathurst on Wednesday 20 April. The organiser of the seminar, Dr Stephanie Quinton, a psychology lecturer at the CSU School of Psychology in Bathurst, says that guest lecturer Dr Mandeep K Dhami, who lectures at the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, will present a series of studies whose findings have implications for the psychology of decision-making as well as the criminal justice system. “Dr Dhami’s presentation, titled Simply Criminal or Legally Simple?, will argue that generally accepted perspectives on crime and justice - which assume that people use compensatory decision strategies that weight and integrate all of the available and relevant information in order to make a decision - may be wrong,” Dr Quinton said. “She will assert that the decision-making of both offenders and court judges, by contrast, can be best described as ‘non-compensatory’; that is, they rely on simple ‘fast and frugal’ personal investigative methods that ignore much of the available and relevant information, and base decisions on one piece of information alone.”